BREVARD, N.C. – Brevard College Football has earned its third USA South Football Decade Athlete of the Week award, as current junior student-athlete Brandon Norris has won the honors for his special teams performance in a 42-3 victory over Greensboro on November 16, 2019.  Norris joins BC's Dalton Cole and Trevon Charles who earlier this season were also named Decade Athletes of the Week.

In the absence of competition for the Fall semester and its postponement to the Spring, the USA South Conference is honoring Decade Athletes of the Week. Selections are based on student-athletes who were named Athlete of the Week within the current week over the past decade.

Norris, a native of Lumberton, North Carolina, won Special Teams Player of the Week for the week ending Nov. 18, 2019 after an electric performance as a punt returner in the regular season-ending, USA South matchup at Greensboro.  Norris returned a punt 57 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter to stretch the Tornados advantage to 42-3.  He also added a punt return for 21 yards en route to an average of 39 yards per return for the contest.

The win over Greensboro in 2019 ensured the highest winning percentage in school history while propelling the Tornados to their first-ever bowl berth, an eventual 42-28 win over Carnegie Mellon in the ECAC Scotty Whitelaw Bowl.

Norris led the 2109 Tornados in receptions (23), receiving yards (374) and punt return yards (227).  He also recorded the longest play from scrimmage on the season for the Tornados with a 79-yard touchdown reception at Methodist.

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