2016: Preseason All-RMAC ... RMAC First-Team All-Academic … Appeared in five games with two starts at center in an injury-impacted season.
2015: NFFCC Colorado Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... RMAC Academic Player of the Year … CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-America …CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-District … RMAC First-Team All-Academic … NFFCC Academic All-Colorado First Team ... Second-Team All-NFFCC … Honorable Mention All-RMAC … Started all 11 games at center … Center in an exclusively no-huddle, shotgun offense … Helped produce the nation’s #1 passing offense while allowing only 1.27 sacks per game … Blocked for a 1,000-yard rusher … Mines ranked fourth in the nation in fewest TFL allowed (3.73/gm).
2014: CoSIDA/Capital One Second-Team Academic All-America … CoSIDA/Capital One First Team Academic All-District … RMAC First-Team Football All-Academic … Started all 12 games at center.
2013: Named to the Academic All-RMAC Honor Roll… Appeared in five games with no starts on the offensive line… Helped Mines to a program-record 727 yards of offense on 108 plays in the squad’s 72-6 win over South Dakota Mines… Mines tied a 40-year-old NCAA Division II record with 42 first downs, set by Delaware in 1973 against SDSMT… Helped squad again set a school record for total offense with 749 yards in the squad’s 62-22 win over Black Hills State… The offense finished inside the top-25 of several NCAA statistical categories, including: first downs (7th, 319), passing offense (10th, 319.0), total offense (11th, 494.1), time of possession (13th, 32:52) and fourth down conversion percent (22nd, 0.596)… Mines led the RMAC in first downs (29.0) and 4th down conversions (59.6 percent), finished second in scoring offense (36.2), total offense (494.1), passing offense (319.0) and third-down conversions (44.0 percent), third in passing efficiency (130.3) and fourth in rushing offense (175.1)… The Mines offense posted more than 400 yards of total offense in eight contests, including three games with 600 or more yards.
2012: Was a Mines football redshirt.
High School: Rice earned four letters in football as a prep at Pius X High School… Named all-city and all-stte as a senior… Academic all-state as a senior… Led team to the state quarterfinals as a junior… Named outstanding junior math student at Pius X H.S.
