Christian Kapp Earns RPI Football Team Award

2017 Feb 1

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) football team has announced its year-end team award winners and Christian Kapp of Westchester (10501) has been selected.

The team's Special Teams Player of the Year, Kapp (Iona Prep.) was first on the Engineers in scoring with 59 points thanks to nine (of 12) field goals, including a long of 47 yards, and 32 (of 32) point-after-touchdown kicks. The All-Liberty League Second Team choice kicked off 51 times with an average of 57.7 yards with nine touchbacks.

The Engineers concluded the regular season with a 21-12 victory over Union College in the Dutchman Shoes Trophy Game and then beat SUNY Maritime, 38-6, in the ECAC Scott Whitelaw Bowl, giving them a 6-5 overall record.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena-from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.