WALTHAM, Mass. – Grad student Danny Guadagnoli (Framingham/Framingham HS), Bentley University's starting quarterback the last three seasons, has been selected for the 2015 Jack Daly Award for Academics, Citizenship and Football by the Jack Grinold Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation.

The award, named in honor of one of the charter members of the Grinold Chapter, has been presented annually since 2012 to a college football player at an institution in the chapter footprint who excels at all three phases of the award title. Mr. Daly was an outstanding football player at Williams College who became a noted raconteur and football official.

Guadagnoli will be honored Sunday night, May 3, when the Grinold Chapter holds its 40th annual Scholar-Athlete Banquet at the Boston-Newton Marriott. He is the second Bentley recipient of the award, following 2012 honoree Bryant Johnson.

This is the fourth major award that Guadagnoli has received since throwing his final pass last November, completing a career that saw him climb to number two in program history in most passing categories, including passing yards (9,175), TD passes (69), completions (671) and completion percentage (.600).

Guadagnoli was cited as the Offensive Player of the Year in the Northeast-10 Conference after breaking the Bentley single season passing yards record for the second straight fall. He threw for 3,310 in 2013 and exceeded that by 128 with 3,438 last fall while helping the Falcons win four of their final five games in Bill Kavanaugh's first year as head coach at his alma mater.

Previously, the New England Football Writers made Guadagnoli just the fourth non-Division I recipient of the Agganis/Zinman Award as the outstanding senior football player in New England.  A couple weeks after that, the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston presented the Falcon QB with the Division II Swede Nelson Award for exceptional achievement in sportsmanship, academics and athletics.

A Division II-III All-New England selection by the NEFW, Guadagnoli led the Northeast-10 in touchdown passes (31) and passing yards per game (313.0) while completing 59 percent of his passes, including 64 percent on second and third down plays.

Guadagnoli graduated Magna Cum Laude last May with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics-finance and is currently working on his MBA in finance.