GREEN NAMED B1G’S DUNGY-THOMPSON HUMANITARIAN AWARD RECIPIENT

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana's Trent Green has been named the Big Ten's Dungy-Thompson Humanitarian Award recipient, the conference announced today. Michigan's Reggie McKenzie was honored as the winner of the Ford-Kinnick Leadership Award. These awards recognize Big Ten football student-athletes who have achieved success in the areas of leadership and humanitarianism following their academic and athletic careers at a Big Ten university.
 
The Dungy-Thompson Humanitarian Award is named for Minnesota's Tony Dungy and Indiana's Anthony Thompson. Green is the second Hoosier to receive the award as George Taliaferro earned the inaugural honor in 2011.
 
Green was a three-year letterwinner while playing quarterback at IU from 1988-92 and remains among the top 10 on 11 of the school's season and career passing charts. He also helped lead the Hoosiers to victories at the 1988 Liberty Bowl and 1991 Copper Bowl, and he earned his bachelor's degree in business-marketing from Indiana in 1992.
 
Off the field, Green is chairman of the Trent Green Family Foundation, which was established in 1999 to support and develop family-focused programs that improve the health, wellness, education and future of children in need in the Kansas City metropolitan area. In May 2003, the Foundation announced its largest initiative to date, a five-year partnership with Phoenix Family to create the HIKE Reading Achievement Program, which offers expert instruction, academic support and educational resources to help instill the key to education for every child in a Phoenix Family community.
 
Green was honored by his alma mater in 2004 when Indiana presented him with the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion in recognition of Green's outstanding service and support to the school while sharing its values and goals.
 
A 2011 IU Athletics Hall of Famer, Green played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and is currently an NFL analyst for CBS Sports.
 
The Ford-Kinnick Leadership and Dungy-Thompson Humanitarian Awards are part of the Big Ten's annual awards program. The Ford-Kinnick Leadership Award is named for Michigan's Gerald Ford and Iowa's Nile Kinnick. For more information on these awards, including biographical information on the namesakes, visit bigten.org.