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That tournament helped Dean gain national recognition. Dean, a Cadet Second Class (junior) business management major at the Academy, was invited to join the USA Rugby Collegiate All-American Team that was preparing for a late-September trip to South Africa.

On the tour, Dean won the inaugural Doug Edwards Best Tourist Award, an award honoring the member of the U.S. team who showed outstanding ability on the pitch and character off the field during the course of the tour. Dean also won the Goff on Rugby/Tullamore Dew Player of the Month Award for September 2002 from Goffonrugby.com, a Web site devoted to rugby in North America.

"I think Doug (Edwards, the former coach at Miami, Ohio, and one of the Collegiate All-American program managers who died this summer) would have had a lot of respect for Josh," Collegiate All-American team manager Jack Clark said in a press release from USA Rugby. "Josh is the type of athlete that Doug liked to recruit to the game, as well as a fine young ...

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