LIVINGSTON, Ala. – Before Saturday's football game against West Georgia, junior linebacker Bo Berens and junior wide receiver Qunzaverius Pickens were honored with the fifth annual Charley Glenn Award for Heroic Service.
The annual award is voted on by the UWA team and goes to a current Tiger football player for extraordinary service to the West Alabama football program of Staff Sgt. Charles Lee Glen. It has become a Tiger tradition to present the award during the Military Appreciation Day.
"It's great to be able to honor these two players with the prestigious Charley Glenn award," head coach Brett Gilliland said. "Both Bo and QP have been great teammates in our program and have done everything they've been asked to do. They help our team tremendously in many ways and their selflessness truly honors Charley and what he stood for."
From Gulf Breeze, Fla., Berens has been a member of the UWA football team since 2020, competing in three games last year and coming away with a tackle.
From York, Ala., Pickens also arrived at UWA in 2020, playing in two games last year collecting a solo tackle.
Previous recipients of the award include former student-athletes Bob Myers, Montell Dent, Call Dyer and current senior Michael Anderson.
A UWA graduate and former Tiger football player, Glenn was also a military veteran and Bronze Star recipient. He played football at UWA from 1994-97, earning numerous academic honors before enlisting in the United States Army on June 17, 2003.
An Army Special Forces Soldier, Glenn, lost his life in the service of our nation on May 17, 2007, after losing consciousness during a training event at the Special Forces Underwater Operations School.
Glenn attended basic combat training and advanced individual training at Fort Benning, Georgia, before reporting to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in 2003. Glenn was selected for Special Forces training and completed the Special Forces Qualification Course in 2005.
He reported to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in December 2005, where he was assigned to a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha. He completed a tour in Iraq before beginning the Combat Dive Qualification Course.
Glenn's family escorted Berens and Pickens on the field and presented both with the award in a pregame ceremony.
UWA will remain at home this coming week when Shorter comes to town on Saturday, Oct. 1 for a 2 p.m. kickoff inside Tiger Stadium.
