Firman Named Senior CLASS Award Candidate

For his success both on and off the field, Syracuse lacrosse senior captain Scott Firman is one of 20 players selected as a Senior CLASS Award Candidate.

The award, which is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages athletes to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.

The 20 candidates will be narrowed down to 10 finalists later in the season and those names will be on the official ballot. Should Firman make the final-10, it'd be the third-straight season that a member of the Orange was a finalist for the award, following Kevin Rice (2015) and Dylan Donahue (2016).

Firman, who was elected a team captain this season by his teammates, is majoring in marketing management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He has excelled in the classroom, most recently placing third in the Whitman School's Senior Capstone. His group – which featured teammates Joe DeMarco and Ben Williams – used the fall semester to develop a revolutionary product in the lacrosse industry, presented their business plan to peers, school faculty and potential investors and took third of 73 groups for their work.

Last summer, he interned with SFP Capital LLC, a venture capitalist firm which invested in multiple startup companies in Baltimore, Maryland.

A Fayetteville, N.Y. native who attended Jamesville-DeWitt High School, Firman has also worked in numerous volunteer roles in the community. He' volunteered at Upstate Medical University, assisting in all areas of the hospital. He assisted visitors, delivered blood labs and assisted with patient discharges among other tasks. His most recent assignment has him in the emergency room.

In 2016, Firman volunteered at Francis House Hospice Care, where he assisted in everyday needs of the residents while assisting in meal preparation, housekeeping and other chores in addition to visiting with the residents to provide companionship.

Firman has also been a leader among athletes at SU, having served as a Syracuse Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Orientation Leader in 2015 and coordinating a Make-A-Wish Foundation wish fulfillment in 2014. In that experience, Firman was a wish granter who fulfilled a 12-year-old boy's wish of shopping and spending the day with the men's lacrosse team a week prior to his open heart surgery.

For all his off the field contributions, Firman has done just as much on the field for the Orange. He's the team's active leader in caused turnovers, causing three in 2017 already and collecting nine ground balls in his first season on close defense after moving from LSM.

Firman and the Orange hit the road for the first time this season on Saturday when the team heads to St. John's for a 1 p.m. contest that will be broadcast on ESPN3.

Syracuse University Athletics

Players Mentioned

Joe DeMarco

Dylan Donahue

Scott Firman

Ben Williams

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