Colorado School of Mines Athletics

D2football.com All-Decade Team Member

2012: Named the RMAC Special Teams Player of the Year... Named First Team All-RMAC... Named a First Team Don Hansen All-American... Named a First Team Beyond Sports Network All-American… Named a First Team Daktronics All-American... Named a First Team AP Little All-American... Named a First Team D2Football.com All-American... Named the Don Hansen Gazette All-Super Region Four Special Teams Player of the Year... Named a Don Hansen Gazette First Team All-Super Region Four selection... Named the NFFCC All-Colorado Special Teams Player of the Year... First Team NFFCC All-Colorado selection... Named a Daktronics First Team All-Region selection... Named a First Team BSN Preseason All-American… Named a First Team Lindy's Preseason All-American… Named a USA College Football First Team Preseason All-American… RMAC Preseason Special Teams Player of the Year… Preseason All-RMAC selection… RMAC Special Teams Player of the Week (Sept. 17)… D2Football.com Special Teams Player of the Week (Sept. 20)... BSN National Special Teams Player of the Week (Oct. 15)... Set NCAA Division II record for punting average on minimum of 30 punts (51.1)… Broke record set by Steve Ecker of Shippensburg in 1965 (49.1)… Led nation in punting for second-straight season… Set NCAA All-Division record with 51.1 punting average in 2012… Breaks record set by Chad Kessler of LSU (50.3) in 1997… Set NCAA Division II career record for punting average (46.1) which breaks record of 44.9 set by Jeff Williams of Adams State… His 46.1 yards per punt career average is second among all divisions behind longtime NFL veteran Todd Sauerbrun of West Virginia (46.3 - 1991-94)… Averaged 56.6 yards per punt against Western New Mexico which puts him 15th on in the NCAA single-game charts… Instrumental in helping Mines lead the nation in net punting average (41.59)… Punted 49 times for a total of 2,505 yards (51.1 YPP)… 26 punts of 50 or more yards in 2012… 15 punts inside opponent 20 yard line in 2012… Season long of 81 yards… 74 career punts of 50 or more yards… Career long of 88 yards.

2011: Earned Pre-Season Honorable Mention All-American honors from Consensus Draft Services… A Pre-Season All-RMAC selection… Named RMAC Pre-Season Special Teams Player of the Year… NFFCC Special Teams Player of the Year… First Team NFF All-Colorado… Second Team AP Little All-American… First Team All-RMAC selection…First Team Daktronics All-Region Selection… First Team Daktronics All-American…Beyond Sports Network First Team All-American… D2Football.com First Team All-American… Played in nine games… Led nation in punting average (48.6)… Set NCAA Division II record on minimum of 50 punts (48.6).  Recorded 51 total punts for 2476 yards… Recorded 12 touchbacks… Induced two fair catches… Had 15 punts downed inside opponent’s 20-yard line… Recorded 26 punts of 50 or more yards… Season-long 88 yard punt against Western New Mexico… Posted 84 yard punt against William Jewell… Posted at-least one 50-plus-yard punt in each game he appeared in… Named to the CSM Honor Roll in the spring of 2012... Recipient of CSM's Scott Hahn Special Teams Player of the Year award.

2010: Played in all 12 games...Led the RMAC, finished second in the nation and established a new CSM single-season record for gross punting average (45.39; 57 punts)...A Second Team All-RMAC selection...Named to the Daktronics Super Region #3 Second Team Defense...A Second Team NFF All-Colorado selection...A Third Team Don Hansen All-Super Region Three selection...Set a new CSM record for single-game gross punting average (55.0 avg. on six punts; Aug. 28th vs. Washburn)...Had 19 punts of 50-or-more yards...Induced eight fair catches...Landed 14 punts inside of the opponents' 20-yard line...Had 14 touchbacks...Long punt was 75 yards...Recipient of CSM's Scott Hahn Special Teams Player of the Year award.

2009: Had 46 punts for 1,807 yards...Finished sixth in the RMAC in gross punting average (39.3)...Long punt was 57 yards...Had three touchbacks and induced seven fair catches...Had three punts of 50-or-more yards...Landed 14 of his 46 punts (30.4%) inside the opponents' 20-yard line...Averaged 53.0 yards on two kickoffs (both following safeties).

High School: Earned three letters in football...A First Team All-Conference selection as a junior...Garnered First Team All-Conference, First Team All-State and All-Colorado honors following his senior year...Selected as team's Defensive MVP as a senior...Led his team to the semifinals of the 2008 State playoffs...Four-year letterman on the track & field team...Named First Team All-Conference during each of his final three seasons...Earned four Academic letters...Selected as DRHS's Scholar-Athlete of the Year as a senior in 2008-09.