Gabe Carimi applies the concept of team engineering success (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Left Wisconsin Badgers gear Gabe Carimi knows nothing less than a year of senior dream. Consider this stellar resume:

CarimiCo - the master of the Big Ten championship team for Rose Bowl; Big Ten player of the year and the winner of the trophy Outland recognizing the best editor of Interior of the country; and, one month later a football NFL career will probably begin with a selection of the first round draft.

Anything else?

In fact, there was a quieter success, playing in only two lengths of field football away from Camp Randall Stadium on the campus of engineering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Carimi is a senior civil and environmental engineering graduate named Academic All - Big Ten for four straight years.

At 6 feet, 8 inches and 320 books, Carimi had no difficulty to get noticed on the ground. But Professor Jeff Russell, President of civil and environmental engineering and Advisor Carimi said faculty student field athlete history is also remarkable.

"Author Jim Collins, in his book"good to great,"talks about someone calls a leader level-five," said Russell. This type of leader a humble personal but also really has strong professional will be. I think Gabe has elements of these two qualities. It is a leader this team is humble, and there a clear willingness to succeed in anything he. »

Combining football with a challenging curriculum responsibilities as civil engineering can rather be compared to having two jobs full time, said Russell. Carimi chalks up to his academic success for the same team concept guide football experience.

"Balancing athletics and football is very hard this time of year, because I spend about nine hours per day at the stage of the season", explains Carimi. "I tried to load on some of the most difficult in the spring, half when I have more free time." But it is also a matter of having your classmates and help your friends in engineering. I have friends in each class, that I did, and once you get to know them, we tend to study together and help each other thanks to work. Study with friends engineering has been key to my success. Some people may feel to everything on your own, but engineering firms rely on teams and there are always some checks and balances. »

Carimi, a native of Madison who attended high school in Monona Grove, chose engineering because of his continuing interest in the construction and development. In seventh grade, he helped build a House to habitat for humanity as his bar mitzvah project. He made two courses with North Madison College farm Ruedebusch development and construction.

Requested chide her academic motivation, he says, without hesitation, "my mother." If I am not a list of all scholars, it would be disapppointed. She told me that was what she is most proud, so I made sure I got after every year.

Carimi is very committed to his family and his Jewish faith. His mother is every one of its games since the middle school and his father, a doctor in the region of Janesville, was for each set of College and high school most of the games. Carimi Madison pieces with his sister, 2009 UW-Madison graduate and member of the women's team crew.

One of the activities of the Carimi charity was locks of love, a program that helps children with illnesses that cause hair loss in the long term. He began growing his hair out during the Champs Sports Bowl at Tampa, 2008 he let grow by 18 months until it is long enough to make a donation in the summer 2010.

"Brother's mother died of leukemia at the age of nine, and it is brought many of my family, explains Carimi." It has not been forgotten, even though I've never met him. I just thought it was something which would not take much of my time, but could help other people. »

Carimi also fasting during Yom Kippur every year, even if it conflicted with the football calendar. This season, for example, it has fasted for 24 hours before the game from Arizona State, choose to follow the "Israeli time" rapid rather than the traditional lunch at noon and sunset at the sunset. "It's just weird, because you're not in the mentality of football (after fasting)," he explains. "You're not on your"A"game." But it is something that I think and I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

Carimi is clearly excited about his future professional football and plans to make an intensive training for the Senior Bowl and NFL Scouting combine. He will work with some specific technical coaches and is ready to answer questions on his game teams. "The Senior Bowl is a game because the scouts are in each practice, you really need to do for five days straight," he said.

It is also in discussions with Russell senior design project to apply theoretical knowledge to a technical problem in the real world. Both seek to some creative options, given the amount of displacement Carimi awaiting for the spring semester.

Carimi signals impending College graduating fine as a start, says Russell. "When you put all the parts with Gabe - as leader, with his commitment to his family and faith and volunteerism - these all play in a person who is going to be a game changer and make a difference in the world,"he said.""