Week 8- Special Teams Players of the Week

As the regular football season comes to a close we see a number of familiar names leading their team in the special teams game.  One of the familiar faces is Connor Bolduc, Punter for Mahtomedi.  He punted for a 41.5 yard average in his last regular season game of season and finished the regular season averaging 40.4 yards a punt on 16 punts with a long of 55 yards.  These numbers may put him in the realm of being the top overall punter in Minnesota in terms of punting average.  The top kicker this week goes to Gary Althoff of Hawley High School.  He converted all 7 of his PATs and converted 1 Field Goal for 10 points. Congratulations to everyone who earned specialists of the week honors!  Good luck to you all in the playoffs.

Gary Althoff's photo wasn't available at the time of being posted.

Top Minnesota High School Specialists Top Kicker

• Gary Althoff- Hawley- 7 for 7 PATs and 1 FG- 10 points

Honorable Mention

• Jose Cabrera- Brooklyn Center- 3 for 3 PATs and 2 Field Goals of 27 and 26 yards- 9 points
• Jacob Newman- White Bear Lake- 3 for 3 PATs and 2 Field Goals of 25 and; 21 yards- 9 points
• Jacob Wiedrich- Moorhead- 2 for 2 PATs and 2 Field Goald of 33 and 28 yards- 8 points
• Isaac Aanerud- Rogers- 5 for 5 PATs and 1 Field Goal of 41 yards- 8 points
• Alex Probert- Andover- 5 for 7 PATs and 1 Field Goal of 45 yards- 8 points
• Andrew Ajaluwa- DeLaSalle- 8 for 9 PATs- 8 points

 Notable Performances

• 3 kickers tied at 7 points- Matt Arneson (Benilde St Margarets- 4 PATs/1FG), Taylor Modaff (Monticello- 7 PATs) and Dominic Bondhus (Glencoe Silver Lake- 7 PATs)

Connor Bolduc

Top Punter

• Connor Bolduc- Mahtomedi- 3 punts for 125 yards and a 41.6 yard average.

Honorable Mention

• Jebah Doe- Maple Grove- 2 punts for 82 yards and a 41 yard average.
• Thomas McDonald- Northfield- 5 punts for 196 yards and 39.2 yard average.
• Mac Schmidt- St Thomas Academy- 2 punts for 77 yards and a 38.5 yard average.

Coach Husby also has helped train a number of specialists that live outside of MN.  We'd like to recognize those student's top performances.
This week we had a number of outstanding performances that we had to recognize.
  

Owen Schommer

Top Out-Of-State Specialist of the Week

• Owen Schommer- Prescott High School (Prescott, WI)- 2 for 2 PATs and 2 Field Goals- 8 points
  

Honorable Mention

• Drew Cornwell- Iowa City High School (Iowa City, IA)- 6 for 6 PATs.  Drew now is ranked 2nd in the state of Iowa in Career Kicking Points!- 6 points
• Colt Andolsek- Herriman High School (Herriman, UT)- 6 for 6 PATs. Colt has now made 100% of his PATs in his last 2 years.- 6 points

Ryan Weese

Top Collegiate Specialist

• Ryan Weese- Hutchinson Community College- 9 for 9 PATs & a 65 yard Kickoff Average.- 9 points

Congratulations to everyone!

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Week 1- Special Teams Player of the Week

Our Player of the Week posts are designed to recognize the top kicking and punting performances of the week in Minnesota at the High School Level.  We'd also like to recognize the top performances of some of our student athletes that we've helped train at the Collegiate, Youth and Middle School Level.

In the first full week of play for most high school football programs, we saw a lot of great performances. There were a number of stand out performances, but nothing stood out more than Logan McElfresh Brainerd High School in MN.  Logan kicked 9 PATs, 1 punt for 49 yards, as well as 1 Field goal which made him the top kicking point scorer in Minnesota.

Logan McElfresh

Top Minnesota High School Specialists
Top Kicker 

• Logan McElfresh- Brainerd- 9 for 10 PAT, 1 FG (30 yards) and 1 punt (49 yards) for 12 points

Honorable Mention

• Matt Glasenapp- Lake City- 8 for 8 PATs (in just the first half before they put in the 2nd string kicker)- 8 points
• Travis Mashuga- Anoka- 5 for 6 PATs and 1 FG (44 yards)- 8 points
• Clay Elmore- Wayzata- 2-2 PATs and 1 FG (26 yards). Game winning Field Goal in Double OT over state powerhouse Rosemount.

Alex Copa

Top Punter

• Alex Copa- Blaine- 9 punts for 372 total yards and a 41.3 yard average--> Honorable Mention

 Honorable Mention

• Alex MacGregor- Zimmerman- 3 punts (59, 42, 28) for 129 total yards and a 43 yard average.  Also all touchbacks on his KOs.
• Aitor Flood- Cretin Durham Hall- 4 punts for 165 total yards and a 41.2 yard average

Coach Husby also has helped train a number of specialists that live outside of MN.  We'd like to recognize those student's top performances.

Top Out-Of-State Specialist of the Week

• Miguel Recinos- Mason City High School (IA)-  2 for 2 PATs and 2 for 2 for field goals (50 & 43 yards), 5/5 kickoffs- All for touchbacks, and 1 punt for a 50 yard average.- 8 points

Miguel Recinos

Honorable Mention

• Drew Cornwell- Iowa City High School (IA)- 1 for 1 PATs, 2 for 2 on Field Goals (21 and 22 yards) and 1 touchback on kickoffs- Now ranked Top Ten all time field goals made in Iowa- 7 points 
• Jon Coppens-  Marcus High School (TX)- 3 for 3 PATs and 1 for 1 on Field Goals (29 yards)- 6 points

Top Collegiate Specialist

• Ryan Weese- Hutchinson Community College- 1 for 1 PATs, 3 for 3 on Field Goals & 4 kickoffs (1 touch back) with a 62 yard average.  Bringing his totals up to 6 for 6 for the season- 10 points.

Congratulations to everyone!

Chris Husby 
Professional Kicking Coach and Owner

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Zero Week- Special Teams Player of the Week

Zero Week is the week that is leading up to the first official week of the high school season.  It's a chance for teams who may have had trouble scheduling a game during the season, to play a game during the preseason.  There were only 11 games in MN going on during "Zero Week."  This year we have more specialists reporting and that we trained, so we will be awarding a TOP Kicker and Punter each week as well as Top Collegiate Athlete.

Our High School Prep Co-Athlete Special Teams Players of the Week are Perry Smith of Minnetonka and Louis Hartzog of Chaska. Both kicked 5 for 5 on their PATs.

Top Punter

• Jason Witherspoon- 4 punts for 142 total yards with a 35.5 yard punt average.

Ryan Weese

But the most impressive performance was done by Ryan Weese of Hutchinson Community College

Top Collegiate Specialist of the Week-
Ryan Weese- 5 for 5 on PATs and 3 for 3 on Field goals (27, 31, 28)- for a total of 14 points.

Congratulations everyone!

Coach Chris Husby

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