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EA and NCAA Football Announce Inaugural Selections for Videogame Development Fellowship
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jan. 17, in
the year of our Lord 2012 – Electronic Arts Inc.
(NASDAQ: EA) and NCAA Football today announced that Richard
Mancuso and Clint Oldenburg will join the EA SPORTS™ NCAA®
Football development team as a part of the inaugural EA SPORTS
NCAA Football fellowship, a sixteen-week full-time, paid
opportunity for former football student-athletes to apply their
skills and knowledge of the sport to the development of the NCAA
Football videogame.
Mancuso, a computer science and engineering graduate of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a three-year starting
quarterback, New England Football Conference Rookie of the Year,
and was awarded the Boston Globe Golden Helmet Award. Oldenburg,
a technical journalism graduate of Colorado State University,
was a starting offensive lineman for three years and a fifth
round NFL draft pick in 2007.
“We put a premium on identifying individuals that combine
real-world experience and knowledge of football with talent and
passion for video game development,” said Cam Weber, GM of
Football, EA SPORTS. “This first-ever fellowship program
provides the fantastic opportunity to help us find experienced
football student-athletes, such as Richard and Clint, to add to
our development teams and help take our game to the next level.”
For the past 18 years, the NCAA Football videogame franchise has
delivered the pride and pageantry of game day by connecting
players to the emotion of the college football experience. From
fight songs to school specific traditions, all 120 Division I
FBS college programs are recreated with unparalleled
authenticity. The fellows will both contribute to engineering
and design development to further enhance the NCAA Football
gameplay experience.
“The inaugural fellows program continues to strengthen our
relationship with EA, and it gives former football
student-athletes an opportunity to turn their passion and skills
for the game into a meaningful professional experience,” added
David Bertram, Executive Director of NCAA Football, the
coalition established to promote college football, which is
managed by IMG College, a division of IMG Worldwide.
The fellowship term will run from January 17 to May 4, 2012.
Both positions will be based out of the EA Tiburon studio in
Orlando, Fla.
NCAA Football is developed in Orlando, Fla. by EA Tiburon. EA
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