Congratulations go to Will Snyderwine, who has been named to the AFCA's All-America team for his efforts at kicker for the Blue Devils this season.
Here's the link to the full team.
Snyderwine was 21/24 on FGs for the season, with a long of 52.
He also led Duke in scoring with 95 points, nearly doubling up the closest teammate.
Last edited by Mike Corey; 11-29-2010 at 01:58 PM.
This is pretty unbelievable considering that there were open tryouts for kicker in the not too distant past. I can't believe we have gone from sweating out extra points to an All-American kicker in such a short time. Congrats Will!
A tremendous accomplishment! He has definitely come a long way and it's great to see him recognized as one of the best in college football. Way to go Will!!
Will Snyderwine was found during the open tryouts, so obviously they were key to the current state of the kicking. He wasn't recruited to kick for Duke, but was on the club rugby team. (Maybe you weren't saying otherwise but just wanted to clear it up.). I'd agree that it's pretty amazing that Snyderwine came out of obscurity to be such an amazing kicker. I'm sure a lot of hard work went into that. The accolades are well-deserved. Congratulations!
Nicely done. Sign of a program on the rise, now we need to keep those slimy agents that hang around Chapel Hill away from our All-American.
I was referring to the state of kicking coughjoesurgancough being poor enough to require open tryouts for kicker. IIRC, those tryouts happened during more than 1 season. I believe the first turned up Nick Maggio, who could at least kick XP's while Surgan continued to handle kickoffs and long field goals.
Excellent! What a turnaround. Placekicking went from embarassing to great with Will on board.
A Duke All-American football player! May the Cutcliffe years bring many more.
Man, if your Mom made you wear that color when you were a baby, and you're still wearing it, it's time to grow up!
1st Team AFCA All-American, 2nd Team All-ACC...
Maggio is a scholarship kicker from Kansas. He was a so-so 50 for 50 on PATs.
Congrats to Snyderwine.
Yep, it is pretty amazing:
http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-footb...112910aac.html
Conner Vernon was also named 2nd Team All-ACC, while Abraham Kromah was Honorable Mention.
Bob Green
Hazley 19-20 FG long of 52
Snyderwine 21-24 FG long of 52
One plus for Snyderwine...he also handled kick-offs which Hazley did not do.
Snyderwine avgd. 64.7 yds on his kick-offs with 11 touchbacks; he's also pretty good at onside kicks.
At any rate, Snyderwine has done a terrific job in what was a perennial weak area for Duke.
Congratulations, Will!!
Congrats to Snyderwine ...
You can argue whether he or Hosley was the best field goal kicker in the ACC, but where Snyderwine deserves props is his kickoffs. He was, hands down, the best kickoff man in the ACC -- long when he needed to be, directional when he needed to be and successful on four onside kicks -- two more than the rest of the ACC combined (plus he would have had a fifth except Walt Canty was off-side on his try against UNC).
Best of all ... we've got the guy for another year.
PS Interesting that Alex King, our punter, is also an un-recruited walk-on. He took over Kevin Jones in the Wake game (when Jones dropped a snap, then gave Wake a TD when he tried to pick the ball up instead of falling on it. Kingt did a great job, averaging 41.1 yards a kick. He was great at placement -- he had just five touchbacks and 18 kicks downed inside the 20.
Congratulations, Will! How exciting for the program!