Sean Tufts

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Sean Tufts
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Position: Linebacker
Personal information
Born: (1982-03-26) March 26, 1982 (age 42)
Englewood, Colorado, U.S.
Height:6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:240 lb (109 kg)
Career information
High school: Cherry Creek (CO)
College: Colorado
NFL draft: 2004  / Round: 6 / Pick: 196
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Tackles:11
Fumble recoveries:1
Player stats at PFR

Sean Tufts (born March 26, 1982) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Carolina Panthers.

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University of Colorado Football 2000–2003

At the University of Colorado, Tufts was the starting middle linebacker from 2001–2003. Including the 2001 Big 12 Championship season. His senior year, Tufts was voted Captain and was placed on the Butkus Award watch list.[ citation needed ] He averaged 8 tackles per game and finished the 2003 season with 95 tackles. [1] In 2004, Tufts was drafted in the 6th round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers.

Carolina Panthers Football 2004–2006

Tufts was the 196th pick overall, taken by the Carolina Panthers, in the 2004 NFL Draft. [2] He was used sparingly in 2004, playing in the season's final three games. In 2005, he backed up Pro Bowler Dan Morgan and played on special teams. Knee injuries forced Tufts to the sidelines for the 2006 season. Over his career Tufts played in 18 games for the Panthers and totaled 16 career tackles, with one recovered fumble. [3]

Professional

After retiring from the NFL in 2006, Tufts returned to the University of Colorado at Boulder to pursue his Master of Business Administration at the university's Leeds School of Business. There, Tufts majored in Energy and Finance, was voted Class President [4] and was the Director of the Net Impact Case Competition. [5] While pursuing his MBA, Tufts joined the Ralphie Handlers, a group responsible for leading Ralphie the Buffalo, the Colorado Buffaloes' mascot onto the field before every Colorado home football game. [6] Tufts was the first and only former CU football player to run Ralphie. [7]

Tufts began has post-football professional career in wind energy as a Development Manager for RES Americas, based in Broomfield, Colorado. [4] He assisted in development of 460MW of wind energy projects in North America. In late 2011, Tufts, along with former Colorado teammate Jeremy Bloom, was selected to Forbes' inaugural "30 Under 30", a list of 30 young entrepreneurs, for his work in the energy sector. [8]

He left RES Americas in 2013 to take a role with General Electric where he served as a Global Key Account Manager for vendors in the utility and oil and gas space. In May 2014, GE acquired the industrial cyber security company, Wurldtech, [9] [ better source needed ] and recruited Tufts to sell security solutions in the mid-stream, LNG, offshore drilling, mining, and renewable markets.

In 2017, Tufts joined Denver based Optiv, as a Security Solution Integrator specializing in heavy industrial projects and serves as ISSA Denver Oil and Gas Special Interest Group coordinator. [10] [11]

Buffs4Life

Tufts was appointed to president of the Buffs4Life Foundation in June 2018. [12] The foundation focuses on Mental Health for former athletes at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The group has raised over $750K since its formation in 2004. This includes major fundraisers for over 50 former athletes including John Hessler, [13] Chancellor Lee Adams [14] and more.

Tufts has been locally and nationally recognized for his work with the foundation including features on 9News, Denver Post, Pac12 Network, ESPN and Fox Sports. [15]

Personal life

Sean grew up in Centennial, Colorado. [16] On June 26, 2010, Tufts married Orly Ripmaster, a former soccer and lacrosse player at Harvard University, [17] in Vail, Colorado.They have two young children [18]

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  2. ↑ "2004 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  3. ↑ Sean Tufts 2004 NFL Draft Profile – ESPN. Insider.espn.go.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-02.
  4. 1 2 http://leeds.colorado.edu/MBA/interior.aspx?id=11873 [ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Leeds School of Business". leeds.colorado.edu. Archived from the original on September 30, 2010.
  6. ↑ Ralphie the Buffalo – CUBuffs.com – Official Athletics Web site of the University of Colorado. CUBuffs.com (1967-10-28). Retrieved on 2011-06-02.
  7. ↑ Brooks: Tufts Takes Different Run – CUBuffs.com – Official Athletics Web site of the University of Colorado. CUBuffs.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-02.
  8. ↑ "Bloom and Tufts Named to Forbes 30 Under 30".
  9. ↑ "Search results". www.google.com.[ better source needed ]
  10. ↑ "Board Members | Denver ISSA".
  11. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-tufts-36b4909/ [ self-published source ]
  12. ↑ "Board of Directors".
  13. ↑ "Truly Golden Buffaloes". 26 March 2013.
  14. ↑ "Saundra and Lee Adams Get a New Home". 23 May 2017.
  15. ↑ "The buffalo wrangler's new path for athlete mental health at CU". 8 November 2018.
  16. ↑ "Sean Tufts - Football".
  17. ↑ "Athlete of the Week: Orly Ripmaster '03 | Sports | the Harvard Crimson".
  18. ↑ "Participating in his first Bolder Boulder, Luke Tufts of Denver".
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