LOGAN, Utah – Utah State Athletics has unveiled a new scholarship endowment fund in the name of Brian Suite, a former Aggie football player who died on Sept. 2, 2020, following a courageous battle with soft tissue sarcoma, a very rare form of cancer. He was 28.
 
The Brian Suite Aggie Athlete Scholarship will be awarded annually to current student-athletes in their junior or senior years. The awardees must demonstrate leadership, respect and a commitment to excellence – some of the qualities Suite displayed in the classroom, on the field and in the community.
 
The Suite family helped establish the endowment and any contributions thereafter are to continue to grow it. It is the hope of Wendy Suite, Brian's mother, that the endowment eventually covers the full cost of attendance for a student-athlete.
 
Suite's legacy continues to live on inside the confines of the Jim & Carol Laub Athletics-Academics Complex as a locker in his name has been sponsored by a donor.
 
Suite was a three-year starter at safety for the Aggies from 2012-14 and earned honorable mention all-Mountain West honors as both a junior and senior. He was also named to the SI.com and CBS Sports.com All-Bowl Teams following his junior season, as he tied his season high with 11 tackles, to go along with a fumble recovery and an interception, in the Utah State's 21-14 victory over No. 24 Northern Illinois in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.

The native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Suite helped Utah State to the 2012 Western Athletic Conference championship and a school-record three-straight bowl wins as the Aggies defeated Toledo 41-15 in the 2012 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, followed by the win against NIU in the Poinsettia Bowl, and a 21-6 win against UTEP in the 2014 Gildan New Mexico Bowl.

For his career, Suite started 40 of the 41 career games he played in. Overall, he posted 226 tackles, including a career-high 13 stops at Wisconsin during his junior campaign. Suite also had eight interceptions and 21 pass breakups in his career. In his final collegiate game against UTEP in the New Mexico Bowl, Suite posted a season-high 10 tackles.

Suite, who was a three-time academic all-conference honoree, graduated from Utah State with a degree in business administration. Following his collegiate career he was invited to work out with the Arizona Cardinals, Washington Football Team, Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. The undrafted free agent signed with the Lions and played in four NFL preseason games.
 
An avid outdoorsman, Suite enjoyed hiking, fishing and hunting in Cache Valley. He also loved USU traditions like Lighting the A Blue and eating Aggie Ice Cream, and quickly became an Aggie for Life.
 
To donate to the Brian Suite Aggie Athlete Scholarship Fund, click here.
 
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