Dec. 4, 2003

BALTIMORE, Md. --- Johns Hopkins junior offensive tackle Matt Weeks (Landisville, PA/Hempfield) and junior safety Matt Campbell (Hillsborough, NJ/Hillsborough) have been named to the 2003 Football Gazette NCAA Division III All-South Region Football Team, it was announced today. Weeks was named to the first team, while Campbell garnered second team honors. Both players will now go on the ballot for national Football Gazette All-America honors.

Weeks earned First Team All-Centennial honors this season as he anchored a young Blue Jay offensive line. He became the sixth different Johns Hopkins offensive lineman to earn First Team All-Centennial honors since 1995 and the Blue Jays have featured at least one First Team All-CC offensive lineman in eight of the last nine years. Weeks recently completed his first season as a full-time starter for the Blue Jays and was the leader of a line that features no senior starters. The Blue Jays led the Centennial Conference in scoring offense (28.6) and total offense (386.6) and Hopkins was the only team in the Centennial Conference that averaged more than 175 yards rushing (199.7) and passing (186.9).

Campbell was a unanimous First Team All-Centennial selection this season and also became the first Johns Hopkins player to earn Centennial Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors since Harrison Bernstein in 1997. Campbell finished third on the the team in tackles (65) and led the team and the Centennial Conference in interceptions with eight. He also had a team-high 11 pass breakups to his credit. Campbell's eight interceptions tied the JHU single-season record and he spearheaded a unit which ranked among the top five in the nation throughout the season in scoring defense and pass efficiency defense. The Blue Jays allowed a total of just 77 points in 11 games and intercepted 28 passes on the year while allowing just two touchdown passes. Campbell was also a First Team All-Centennial and All-ECAC South selection last season.

Johns Hopkins won a school-record 10 games (10-1) in 2003 and grabbed a share of a second straight Centennial Conference Championship. The Blue Jays also won a second consecutive ECAC Championship as they defeated King's (PA), 41-13 in the ECAC South Atlantic Championship Game.

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