Dean Janikowski named Campbell Trophy Semifinalist

IRVING, Texas (September 25, 2024) – Washington State kicker Dean Janikowski was named a William V. Campbell Trophy Semifinalist for the second straight season by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Wednesday.
 
Celebrating its 35th year, the Campbell Trophy® recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.
 
Last season, Janikowski appeared in all 12 games, was perfect on 44 PAT attempts and went 10-of-15 on field goal attempts. In the classroom, Janikowski was named to 2023 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll with a 4.00 GPA while working towards his MBA, was named to the Wuerffel Trophy Watch List and was a William V. Campbell Trophy Semifinalist, give to the nation’s best scholar athlete. Janikowski enters week five with four made field goals and 19-of-21 on extra points while pulling double duty and punting this season, averaging 41.6 yards-per-punt on 14 punts with three inside the 20 and a long of 52. Janikowski enters the week five game against Boise State second in school history with 145 career PAT, fourth in career field goal percentage (75.0), fifth with 262 career points and sixth with 39 career made field goals.
 
Off the field, Janikowski started a pledge called “More than a Kick” in 2021 where donations were made for each field goal and PAT by Janikowski and the donations go to helping children with cancer, in honor of his mom, Heather, who passed away from cancer. To date, More Than A Kick has raised over $37,000. Janikowski later started the Heather Janikowski Foundation and began another event called “Kicking Cancer” with an annual goal of raising $30,000 to support the Seattle Children’s Hospital Cancer Research Center and those affect by cancer in the Pullman/Spokane area. The foundation has raised more than $88,000 towards Kicking Cancer. Janikowski also donated $2500 to former WSU basketball student-athlete Myles Rice, who was diagnosed with cancer and missed the entire 2022-23 season, he donated $15,000 to Molly Rice, who was an art teacher in nearby Colfax, Wash. for over 20 years and made additional donations of 5,000, $10,000 and $15,0000 have been distributed to…