Mizzou Players Appoint Four Captains for 2017 Season
8/22/2017 7:02:00 PM | Football
Junior OL Paul Adams, senior LB Eric Beisel, senior DE Jordan Harold and junior QB Drew Lock named captains for the 2017 season.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Football finished its first practice since the beginning of classes by holding a vote to determine who the team's captains would be for the 2017 season. Head coach Barry Odom said that he was pleased with the amount of student-athletes who received votes, but in the end, the team elected redshirt junior OL Paul Adams, redshirt senior LB Eric Beisel, redshirt senior DE Jordan Harold and junior QB Drew Lock.
"We designated four guys, as a team, and I'm proud of those guys," Odom said. "We've got great senior leadership, but we also have leaders among our team, with the young guys. We're in a pretty good spot."
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Each the four captains each expressed gratitude to their teammates for this public display of trust.
"It means a lot to me," Lock said. "My dad was a co-captain when he was here, so to be alike him in this aspect is very nice. As far as my teammates voting me in for this, it speaks a lot of what they think of me and that means so much. Because at the end of the day, their opinion is the only opinion that matters to me."
"This shows the trust and belief of my teammates," Harold said. "It puts a lot on my shoulders, but it's a triumph for me; it means a lot. I'm excited to do what I can to help lead this team and give it all for them. I mean, they voted me as a captain so, I'm going to give them my all."
"It was kind of a surprise, very humbling," Adams said. "My immediate reaction was just a big smile and to thank the guys around me. It was truly a great and humbling experience. But, for me, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, maybe up the ante on leadership more, talk a little more. But I cannot get complacent. I've got people looking up to me even more now. So, I got to do what I do."
"It's an honor, being voted by my peers," Beisel said. "We put a lot of work in as a senior group, and the whole team, leadership wise. This is how we expected it to turn out, having a lot of guys step up to choose from to be our captains. It came down to us four, and it's just such a great honor to be elected by my teammates and to be put in those shoes to lead this team to what we're about to do."
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