Jack Cantele

Height:
6-0
Weight:
175
Class:
Senior
High School:
Kapaun Mt. Carmel

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CAREER HONORS
• 2015 First Team All-Big 12 (Coaches)
• 2015 Honorable Mention Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year (Coaches)
• 2015 First Team Academic All-District 7
• 2015 First Team Academic All-Big 12
• 2015 Lou Groza Award Star of the Week (La Tech)
• 2015 Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week (La Tech)
• 2014 Lou Groza Award watch list
• 2013 Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week (TCU)
• 2013-14 First Team Academic All-Big 12

CAREER: A talented place kicker who originally came to K-State as a walk-on and left with his name in the school’s record book... Served as the full-time place kicker in 2013 and for a majority of the 2015 season... Ranks fourth in school history in career field goal percentage (77.8) and 10th in career field goals made (28)... Also ranked in the school’s top-10 in career extra points (82; 7th) and field goals (36; 10th) attempted... Helped K-State accumulate a 34-18 record, a Big 12 Championship in 2012 and four-straight bowl berths.

2015 (Click Here for 2015 Game-by-Game Stats): Connected on 12-of-14 field goals and all 29 extra-point attempts en route to earning First Team All-Big 12 honors from the league’s coaches, while he was an honorable mention pick as the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year... Became K-State’s first First Team All-Big 12 place kicker since Jamie Rheem in 2000... Teamed with fellow place kicker Matthew McCrane, who earned Honorable Mention All-Big 12 accolades, to become just the second place-kicking duo in league history to earn All-Big 12 honors in the same season (2001 Colorado)... Ranked second in the Big 12 and 10th nationally in field-goal percentage (85.7)... Tallied the eighth perfect season in school history in terms of extra-point percentage, while he carded the fifth-best mark in school history in terms of single-season field goal percentage... Was true on a game-winning 42-yarder against Iowa State with three seconds remaining, his second-career game-winning field goal (2013 vs. TCU)... Earned Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week and Lou Groza Award Star of the Week honors following the Louisiana Tech game when he made all four field-goal attempts, including a career-long tying 44-yarder to send game into third overtime... His four field goals against the Bulldogs were tied for the second most in school history, while it was the fifth time in K-State history a kicker was perfect on at least four field goals in a game.

2014 (Click Here for Game-by-Game Stats): Saw action in seven games, serving as the primary place kicker in the first three contests... Made 5-of-9 field goals on the year, including a season-long 43-yarder against Stephen F. Austin... Made two field goals against the Lumberjacks and two at Iowa State, including a 41-yarder... Was also true on all six extra-point attempts against SFA... Made a 39-yard field goal against Kansas... Earned First Team Academic All-Big 12 honors.

2013 (Click Here for Game-by-Game Stats): One of the top place kickers in the Big 12 who connected on 11-of-13 field goals... Finished fourth in the Big 12 by connecting on 84.6-percent of his field goals, sixth in field goals (1.10 per game), seventh in overall scoring (7.3 points per game) and sixth in kick scoring... Was 8-for-10 in league action to rank third in percentage... Finished the year ranked second among sophomores in school history with 73 points and fifth in school history in season percentage... Also finished just outside the school’s single season top-10 list in field goals and extra points (40)... Earned Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week honors after going 4-for-4 against TCU, which included the game-winning 41-yarder with three seconds remaining... It was the Wildcats’ first game-winning field goal under one minute since 1980, while his four makes tied for second in school history... A First Team Academic All-Big 12 performer.

2012: Did not see any game action.

2011: Redshirted.

HIGH SCHOOL: Played three years at Kapaun Mt. Carmel under head coach Dan Adelhart... An all-state selection by the Kansas Football Coaches Association, Topeka Capital-Journal and Wichita Eagle as a senior... Helped the Crusaders win three-straight district championships... Booted over 50 touchbacks and made 15 field goals... Also lettered four years in golf, earning all-city accolades from 2009-11 and all-state honors in 2010 and 2011... Held the low city scoring average and the second lowest round in Kansas state high school golf history with a 5-under par 67 in 2010... Was a four-year member on the superior honor roll and graduated cum laude.

PERSONAL: Jack Gregory Cantele was born July 1, 1992, in St. Louis, Missouri... Son of John and Susan Cantele... Brother, Anthony, was a three-year kicker for the Wildcats from 2010-12... Majoring in civil engineering.