Sam Foltz Memorial Scholarship UNL
The Sam Foltz scholarship is presented annually to a football team member who embodies Sam’s traits of leadership and excellence in both the classroom and the community.
Past Recipients
2022 - Omar Manning
“Man truly an honor, Mr. Foltz and your words were greatly appreciated by all the guys and I! I’ll always hold this near and dear.”
2021 - Ben Stille
“The Sam Foltz Memorial Scholarship was the most meaningful scholarship I received from my time at Nebraska. I was a teammate of Sam’s for a brief time before he passed during my freshman season in 2016. He was an obvious leader of the team from the moment we stepped on campus. His work ethic, humility, and willingness to serve were second to none. Having gotten to know Sam’s parents, Jill and Gerald, since Sam’s passing has been a privilege and is a relationship I will cherish the rest of my life. I could not be more honored to have received a scholarship in memory of such an extraordinary person.”
2020 - Dicaprio Bootle
Dicaprio Bootle was named the 2020 Sam Foltz Memorial Scholarship recipient.
Dicaprio started every game at cornerback as a senior, stretching his streak to 32 consecutive starts. Dicaprio finished with 25 tackles, a half tackle for loss, five pass breakups and one interception as a senior. He was named an honorable-mention All-Big Ten selection by the media. Dicaprio totaled 26 pass breakups in his career, a total which ranked ninth in Nebraska history upon the completion of the 2020 season.
2019 - Jack Stoll
“Winning the Sam Foltz scholarship was one of the highlights of my Nebraska career. It didn’t just mean that I was doing my part on the field by producing on Saturdays (a lot of guys were doing that), it meant that you were someone who was respected by your teammates, coaches, and the football community in general at Nebraska. It meant that you could be relied on to accomplish whatever was needed by the coaching staff, it meant that you were one of the boys in the locker room who everyone could lean on when they needed someone and when they just needed a boy to chop it up with, it meant you could be trusted to do the right thing when you were outside the facility, and it meant you always took care of business the right way.
I was never lucky enough to get to know Sam too well during his time at Nebraska, but from all the stories I’ve heard, he embodies what a Nebraska football player should be. He embodied everything described above and then some. He was what people in the football as “a dude.” To be given an award with his name on it was a huge blessing and I only hope to live life the way he did, fearlessly.”