Six Stags Earn Selections to Hampshire Honor Society

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Six graduating seniors of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps football team were chosen to the Hampshire Honors Society by the National Football Foundation for their performance as scholar-athletes during their CMS careers.

The six award winners for the Stags include Jack Cavellier, David Chen, Satya Mindich, Cade Moffatt, Jake Norville and Cooper Pryde, who were all part of a class that won a SCIAC title in 2018 and competed in the first NCAA Division III Championship in program history, but missed their senior years due to cancelation of sports. 

Cavellier was a key part of the CMS defense in his career, playing both on the defensive line and at linebacker. He had 41 tackles in his career, including 20 in his junior season, when he had a sack and 3.5 tackles for losses. He closed out the year with five tackles (four solo) in a Sixth Street Trophy win over Pomona-Pitzer, and also had a career-high seven tackles and a sack against La Verne. As a sophomore, he had a sack in a key road win over Redlands, which turned out to be the game that determined the SCIAC title. A SCIAC All-Academic Team selection as an economics major, he worked as a finance intern with Amgen in 2000.   

Chen played on the CMS defensive line all three seasons with the Stags. He had a key sack in a 34-21 win over Whittier, which helped keep CMS undefeated in the SCIAC and on its way to a league title, and also had two tackles this year in 2019 in a win over Northwestern (Minn.). A dual major at CMC in both economics and psychology, Chen was heavily involved on campus, with the Student Investment Fund, the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna, the admissions office, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and the Asian Pacific-American Mentoring Program, and interned in the summer of 2000 as a summer associate with Capital Group Investment Management. 

Mindich was a key part of the CMS secondary from the start of his career, appearing in eight games as a first-year and recording 17 tackles and one fumble recovery. He played in six games as a sophomore before being lost to injury, and then played in all 10 games his junior year in 2019, recording his first career interception against Puget Sound. He had six tackles on two occasions, including at La Verne when he had a sack, and again at Redlands. An economics major at Claremont McKenna, Mindich now works as a full-time finance associate at Apple, where he interned during the summer of 2020.

Moffatt was a standout cornerback for the Stags over his career, earning second-team All-SCIAC honors as a sophomore when he helped CMS to the SCIAC title. He was also named to the D3football.com National Team of the Week after seven tackles and three pass break-ups in a key 17-10 win over Cal Lutheran. He also had a big moment in a 16-9 win over Chapman, when his second-half interception helped CMS clinch the SCIAC title. He missed most of his junior season with an injury, but came back late in the year to contribute with six pass break-ups. Moffatt was a SCIAC All-Academic Team selection as well as an economics major, specializing in quantitative economics. 

Norville was the starting quarterback during the season for the 2018 SCIAC Champion Stags Football team, although he was unable to play in the NCAA Division III Tournament game due to injury. He threw for 909 yards, nine touchdown and only two interceptions on the year, while also running for 13 yards. He was named the SCIAC Offensive Player of the Week after throwing for four touchdowns in a win over La Verne, which helped CMS start its league slate with win. A SCIAC All-Academic Team selection as an applied mathematics and economics major at Claremont McKenna, Norville has worked as a financial crimes summer intern with Crowe and as a disputes and investigations intern at Alvarez & Marshal in San Francisco. 

Pryde converted from a defensive lineman to an offensive lineman as a junior, and earned a significant role down the stretch of the 2019 season, earning two starts. He was a SCIAC All-Academic Team selection in each of his three seasons of competition, while pursuing a dual major in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) and government at Claremont McKenna. Off the field, he has served as a senior editor for Tabula Rasa, a philosophy journal operating out of the Claremont Colleges and held a summer position with the Mayor of Toronto's administration working on constituency affairs.

Graduating seniors with the minimum cumulative GPA who were significant starters or reserves are eligible for selection to the Hampshire Honor Society. The full list of Hampshire Honor Society members from around the country can be found at the following link:

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