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2023 (Junior): Appeared in all 12 games, handling all but one of Georgia Tech’s 43 punts on the season … Averaged 42.4 yards per punt with nine traveling 50-plus yards (21.4%), 13 pinned inside the 20-yard line (31.0%) and 17 fair catches (40.5%) … Averaged 43.0 yards on four punts in the season-opener vs. Louisville (Sept. 1) … Did not attempt a punt in the 48-13 win vs. South Carolina State (Sept. 9) … Boomed four kicks at a 46.3 clip, including a 54-yard punt in the 30-16 win at Wake Forest (Sept. 23) … Also averaged 45.2 yards per punt over six tries, including a 58-yarder, at then-No. 17 Miami in the 23-20 win … Boomed a season-long 61-yard punt in the 46-42 win against then-No. 17 North Carolina (Oct. 28), to total two punts for a 48.5-yard average.
2022 (Sophomore): Ranked No. 4 in the ACC and 35th nationally with a 43.5-yard punting average … 43.5-yard average was the eighth-best in Georgia Tech single-season history … Upped his career average to 42.6 yards per punt, which ranks third in school history, behind only Ray Guy Award winners Durant Brooks (45.3 – 2006-07) and Pressley Harvin III (44.7 – 2017-20) … Had at least one punt of 50 or more yards in 9-of-12 games … Also averaged at least 43 yards per punt in 9-of-12 games … Downed two kicks inside the 20 yard line twice in a game four times … 65-yard punt in finale at No. 1 Georgia (Nov. 26) tied for the 26th-longest punt in Georgia Tech history … Named to All-ACC Academic Team in recognition of his performances on the field and in the classroom.
2021 (Freshman): Appeared in all 12 games and handled all 61 of Georgia Tech’s punts on the season, despite having never played in an American football game prior to the campaign … Averaged 41.5 yards per punt with 13 traveling 50-plus yards (21.3%), 16 pinned inside the 20 yard line (26.2%) and 18 fair catches (29.5%) … Averaged a whopping, season-high 52.7 yards per punt in his American football debut versus Northern Illinois (Sept. 4) … 52.7 yards per punt against NIU, which came over three punts and included a 63-yarder, is the seventh-highest single-game punting average in Georgia Tech history (min. two punts) … Averaged better than 44 yards per punt on six occasions — vs. NIU, Sept. 25 vs. North Carolina (44.7), Oct. 2 vs. Pitt (45.5), Oct. 9 at Duke (45.3), Oct. 30 vs. Virginia Tech (48.2) and Nov. 27 vs. Georgia (Nov. 27) … Boomed a season-best 71-yard punt at Duke, which was the eighth-longest in school history and the longest by a GT punter since Durant Brooks booted a 77-yarder vs. UNC on Nov. 17, 2007 … Named to ACC’s all-academic team for achievements on the field and in the classroom.
Prior to Georgia Tech: Rated as a three-star prospect by 247Sports and ESPN … Versatile athlete played Gaelic football, rugby and basketball in his native County Kerry, Ireland … Was a member of Kerry U17 Gaelic football “panel” that won the 2017 Munster championship (Gaelic football’s national title) at the U17 level … Attended Prokick Austrailia in Melbourne, Australia, a American football kicking academy that has produced six of the past seven Ray Guy Award winners and four current National Football League punters … Is the first Prokick alumnus from Ireland … Continued to hone his punting skills during the Covid-19 pandemic by punting in solitude on his uncle’s dairy farm in southwest Ireland.
Personal: Believed to be the first Ireland native ever awarded a full scholarship to play American college football … Majoring in business administration … Member of ACC academic honor roll.
