Where are They Now Wednesday – Jayson Foster
11/20/2013 9:22:00 AM | Football
Wednesday of each week during the football season Georgia Southern Athletics will catch up with a former coach, administrator, student-athlete, trainer, cheerleader, etc. to see where they are now and how their time at Georgia Southern helped get them there.
Jayson Foster
Football
2004-07
Georgia Southern's second Walter Payton Award winner... Led the Eagles to a 7-4 record enroute to winning the FCS' Top Offensive Player Award... Helped the 2007 team average 36.5 points a game and 456.3 yards of offense... Led the Eagles that season with 2,080 all-purpose yards, the most by any Eagle ever... Rushed for 1,844 yards, passed for 1,203 and accounted for 30 touchdowns in 2007... Twice named an All-American... One of only two Eagles to be a First Team All-Conference selection at two different offensive or defensive positions... A 2004 SoCon Freshman of the Year selection by the league's coaches and the 2007 Offensive Player of the Year in the SoCon.
Q: Where are you working and what is your occupation?
JF: "I am currently working as a Logistics Coordinator at Meyn America and am located close to Canton, Georgia. I oversee shipments coming in and going out, finding product, rearranging them in-house and keeping inventory count correct. It is a busy job and I like doing it. It is something that I have been doing for about a year now."
Q: How did the student-athlete experience prepare you for the rest of your life?
JF: "Going to school and playing football helped prepare me for the real world. You need excellent time management skills as a student-athlete. In college you had to make a schedule where you could still practice, get your homework done and be at weights. That also relates to the work force. You have to be at work on time and allocate your time when doing projects. I wish a lot more people could experience the student-athlete lifestyle because the time management and teamwork skills really help."
Q: What are some of your fondest memories as an Eagle?
JF: "The first game I got into against Johnson C. Smith. We were winning pretty big, and I got the opportunity to get into the game. My first start at Northeastern was definitely a memorable game. The time we beat Furman at home in the final minutes and stormed the field was a great experience. It was probably one of the best home game atmospheres I have been to in college football. My senior year beating Appalachian State and snapping their long home winning streak was pretty big as well."
Q: How did you become a Georgia Southern Eagle?
JF: "Coach Brent Davis and Coach Mike Sewak did a lot of recruiting in our area. Coach Davis was our recruiting area coordinator. He came up a lot and I spoke to him a lot. He really got me interested in a chance to play quarterback at the college level. I visited a few different colleges who where talking about me playing defensive back or wide receiver, which I didn't have a problem with playing, but I really wanted to give it a shot at quarterback. I almost signed with Furman but the next week I took my trip to Southern and that was the place I wanted to be. The atmosphere was great, and the fans down there just really loved football. That is just somewhere where you want to be and every game it showed."
Q: How special was it for you to be the second GSU winner of the Walter Payton Award?
JF: "It was really unexpected. I knew what the Walter Payton Award was but I never expected to win it. It wasn't a goal of mine coming into the season. My main goal was just to win games, but when you get nominated for it and have a chance to win it even with our record it shows you the type of talent we had on our team. We had a lot of guys on offense who could get the job done, which made it obviously a lot easier for me."
If you have a suggestion for Where are They Now Wednesdays, let us know on twitter @GSAthletics.
Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics and twitter.com/GSAthletics, and its "Eagles GATA" mobile app for Android and iOS.
Jayson Foster
Football
2004-07
Georgia Southern's second Walter Payton Award winner... Led the Eagles to a 7-4 record enroute to winning the FCS' Top Offensive Player Award... Helped the 2007 team average 36.5 points a game and 456.3 yards of offense... Led the Eagles that season with 2,080 all-purpose yards, the most by any Eagle ever... Rushed for 1,844 yards, passed for 1,203 and accounted for 30 touchdowns in 2007... Twice named an All-American... One of only two Eagles to be a First Team All-Conference selection at two different offensive or defensive positions... A 2004 SoCon Freshman of the Year selection by the league's coaches and the 2007 Offensive Player of the Year in the SoCon.
Q: Where are you working and what is your occupation?
JF: "I am currently working as a Logistics Coordinator at Meyn America and am located close to Canton, Georgia. I oversee shipments coming in and going out, finding product, rearranging them in-house and keeping inventory count correct. It is a busy job and I like doing it. It is something that I have been doing for about a year now."
Q: How did the student-athlete experience prepare you for the rest of your life?
JF: "Going to school and playing football helped prepare me for the real world. You need excellent time management skills as a student-athlete. In college you had to make a schedule where you could still practice, get your homework done and be at weights. That also relates to the work force. You have to be at work on time and allocate your time when doing projects. I wish a lot more people could experience the student-athlete lifestyle because the time management and teamwork skills really help."
Q: What are some of your fondest memories as an Eagle?
JF: "The first game I got into against Johnson C. Smith. We were winning pretty big, and I got the opportunity to get into the game. My first start at Northeastern was definitely a memorable game. The time we beat Furman at home in the final minutes and stormed the field was a great experience. It was probably one of the best home game atmospheres I have been to in college football. My senior year beating Appalachian State and snapping their long home winning streak was pretty big as well."
Q: How did you become a Georgia Southern Eagle?
JF: "Coach Brent Davis and Coach Mike Sewak did a lot of recruiting in our area. Coach Davis was our recruiting area coordinator. He came up a lot and I spoke to him a lot. He really got me interested in a chance to play quarterback at the college level. I visited a few different colleges who where talking about me playing defensive back or wide receiver, which I didn't have a problem with playing, but I really wanted to give it a shot at quarterback. I almost signed with Furman but the next week I took my trip to Southern and that was the place I wanted to be. The atmosphere was great, and the fans down there just really loved football. That is just somewhere where you want to be and every game it showed."
Q: How special was it for you to be the second GSU winner of the Walter Payton Award?
JF: "It was really unexpected. I knew what the Walter Payton Award was but I never expected to win it. It wasn't a goal of mine coming into the season. My main goal was just to win games, but when you get nominated for it and have a chance to win it even with our record it shows you the type of talent we had on our team. We had a lot of guys on offense who could get the job done, which made it obviously a lot easier for me."
If you have a suggestion for Where are They Now Wednesdays, let us know on twitter @GSAthletics.
Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics and twitter.com/GSAthletics, and its "Eagles GATA" mobile app for Android and iOS.
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