EWU's Kupp is named preseason All-American

CHENEY, Wash. — After becoming just the second wide receiver to win the highest offensive player of the year award presented at the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision level, Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp is one of 30 players named to the STATS preseason All-America first team.

Returning for his senior year at Eastern, Kupp has been named to the team for the third-straight year. With a total of three teams chosen, the list of 99 All-Americans consists of players from 63 different schools and all 13 conferences.

Kupp was last year’s FCS Player of the Year in the inaugural awards presented by STATS. He was also a first-team postseason All-America selection by that media agency, and previously was a unanimous first team selection as a freshman and sophomore by other organizations.

Kupp, a 2012 graduate of Davis High School in Yakima, Wash., led the nation last season in catches (114), receiving yards (1,642) and touchdowns (19). This year he will have the opportunity to break many of the FCS all-time receiving records.

In his career, Kupp has 311 catches on 4,764 yards in 39 games while also scoring 56 career touchdowns.

He is also averaging 122.4 reception yards per game, 15.3 yards per catch and 7.97 catches per game.

Eastern Washington to open fall camp Aug. 9

The Eastern Washington football team will begin practices for the 2016 season on Tuesday, Aug. 9 on the Sports and Recreation Center practice fields in Cheney.

Players will report on Sunday and Monday, then the team will practice together on Aug. 9 at 9:15 a.m. Eastern will practice in pads for the first time on Friday, Aug. 12 at 9:15 a.m., followed by its first of five days of two-a-day practices on Aug. 13.

The Eagles are expected to exclusively use the practice fields through Aug. 17, after which Roos Field will be utilized leading up to the team’s Sept. 3 opener at Washington State, which will be televised live nationally at 5 p.m. on the Pac-12 Networks.

The Eagles will scrimmage twice before the team’s season opener. Eastern’s first scrimmage of preseason camp will take place Aug. 20 at approximately 9:45 a.m., and a second scrimmage will take place a week later on Aug. 26, also at about 9:45 a.m.

Both scrimmages are free and open to the public, and will take place on the red Sprinturf surface at Roos Field.

Times and locations of all practices and scrimmages are tentative and subject to change.