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NATCHITOCHES – Senior defensive tackle Lesley Deamer and senior receiver Louis Hollier headlined the award winners as Northwestern State honored the 2014 Demon football team with its annual awards dinner.
 
Deamer and Hollier were among six seniors voted by teammates to receive the 2013 Joe Delaney Memorial Leadership Awards as permanent team captains. Hollier, center Warren Jones and tackle Blayne Cole won offensive honors, Deamer and cornerback Imoan Claiborne represented the defense and tight end Tucker Nims was chosen special teams captain.
 
Hollier also claimed the Offensive Most Valuable Player award voted by teammates. Deamer was the Defensive MVP and Zach Adkins, the Demons' quarterback, was the Newcomer of the Year. He was also presented an Offensive Player of the Year award and senior linebacker Pat Black took home a Defensive Player of the Year award.
 
Linebacker Will Anglin and cornerback Shane McLendon were recognized for having the team's best spring semester 2013 GPA, each posting a 4.0, while linebacker Paxton Cook and safety Cody Jones matched that to win the fall semester 2013 academic award.
 
Defensive end Keland Johnson won the prestigious Lester Latino Memorial Award. The honor, chosen by the coaching staff, is presented to the senior best reflecting qualities of leadership, unselfishness, relentless effort, sportsmanship and character as displayed by Latino, a two-time team captain as a linebacker whose career wrapped up in 1969.
 
Cole won the Most Improved Award for offense, while defensive tackle Damon Medcafe won for defense.
 
Senior offensive lineman Tchissakid Player received the Kirt Straughter Memorial Award for strength and conditioning excellence after winning the annual Trident Competition, a series of tests gauging top marks in speed, strength, agility and conditioning.
 
Sophomore receiver and kick returner Ed Eagan captured the Wild Demon Club Champion award for the most performance points accumulated during the season on special teams. Brandon Monrose and Claiborne shared the Most Improved special teams honor.
 
Deep snapper Hunter Graves won the Specialist of the Year award.
 
Nine players were recognized as Chris Waddell Award winners, for outstanding performance and effort as a walk-on: safeties Chase Collins and Ryan Sorrell, linebackers Paxton Cook and Jordan Sennett, receivers Trevor Goodie and Monrose, cornerback Fred Thomas, and running backs De'Mard Llorens and Matthew Flores.
 
Nine received Scout Team MVP honors: linebacker Will Anglin, running back William Cummings, defensive lineman Isaiah Wheeler, and special teams performers Orlando Calhoun and Caviaan Rachal.
 
Fifteen were presented Sam Goodwin Link Awards for great effort, discipline, courage and toughness. They included Adkins, Garrett Atzenweiler, Black, Cole, Cook, Deamer, Justin Evans, Hollier, Johnson, Jones, Bryant Mitchell, Calvin Morton, Nims, Player, Darius Poullard, Tyler Roussel, Sorrell and Bert White.
 
Also honored were 29 Demons who won Southland Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll recognition, along with 11 chosen for the All-Southland football team.
 
Awards were presented Saturday at a luncheon following the Demons' major scrimmage of spring practice.