Gardner-Webb University Athletics

Preseason All-Big South Conference selection as a kickoffreturn specialist by the league’s head coaches and media… A second-team All-Big South Conference choice as a puntreturner and kickoff return man by Phil Steele’s CollegeFootball Preview Magazine … Named to the College FootballPerformance Awards (CFPA) Watch List as an all-purpose back… Poised for a breakout year offensively … Fits verywell into Gardner-Webb’s new offensive system …Quickness and agility provide excitement in the open field …Has breakaway speed … One of the team’s most dangerousweapons.

2012 at Gardner-Webb: Earned second-teamAll-Big South Conference honors as a punt and kickoff returnspecialist … Led the Big South with an average of 15.2 yardsper punt return, and ranked third by averaging 22.1 yards perkickoff return … Led the league in kickoff return yardageand total returns … Had 109 yards rushing on 32 carries withtwo touchdowns … Caught four passes for 13 yards …Ranked sixth in the Big South and led Gardner-Webb with 98.0all-purpose yards per game … Finished with 1,078 all-purposeyards … Had a 47-yard touchdown run at No. 10 Stony Brook(10/20) … Had seven carries for a season-high 63 yards inthat game … Returned six kickoffs for 106 yards against theSeawolves … Had two carries for 21 yards and a touchdown atLiberty (10/6) … Carried three times for 21 yards vs.Coastal Carolina (11/3) … Had a 12-yard carry vs. No. 10Wofford (9/1) … Named CFPA National Punter Returner of theWeek after posting three returns for 77 yards in the win over VMI(10/27) … Had a 50-yard punt return vs. Mid America Nazarene(10/13) … Had five kickoff returns for 123 yards atPittsburgh (9/22), including a 69-yard effort that set up an earlyfield goal … Returned five kicks for a season-high 141 yardsat Richmond (9/8) … Had a 73-yard return in that game.

2011 at Gardner-Webb: Saw action in seven games… Finished with 16 carries for 64 yards, averaging 4.0 yardsper rush … Averaged 19.8 yards per return on 11 kickoffs… Logged his first game action vs. Liberty (10/8), returninga pair of kickoffs for 36 yards … Carried nine times for acareer-best 45 yards vs. Charleston Southern (10/29) … Hadfour carries for 18 yards vs. Virginia State (11/3) … Had a79-yard kickoff return for a touchdown at VMI (11/17) in the seasonfinale.

High School: Played at Robinson (Fla.) High underCoach Mike DePue … Runner up for Florida’s Class 2AState Player of the Year award in 2010 … A Class 2AAll-State selection ... Nicknamed “Water Bug” ... Afirst-team All-Hillsborough County choice by the Tampa Bay Tribune… A first-team All-Suncoast selection by the St. PetersburgTimes … Rated as a two-star prospect by Rivals.com …Selected to play in the Hillsborough County All-Star Game …Rushed 138 times for 1,447 yards and 27 touchdowns as a senior… Caught one touchdown pass and averaged 32.1 yards andscored two touchdowns on 10 kickoff returns … Helped squadfinish with a 10-3 record and led team to the third round of theClass 2A playoffs … Had 135 yards i the second half of a21-7 win over Tampa Jesuit ... Had 187 yards total in that game onjust 19 carries ... Rushed for more than 400 yards in the playoffs… Ran for 766 yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior …Also returned two kickoffs for touchdowns that season …Chose Gardner-Webb over South Alabama … Also recruited byWestern Kentucky, Bethune-Cookman, Massachusetts and Towson, amongothers.