Eastern Michigan Athletics
2005 Football Roster
Sep 20 (Sat)
3:30 p.m.
Roster
Andrew Wellock
- Position:
- PK
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Canton, Ohio
- High School:
- Green
PERSONAL: Full name: Andrew Steve Wellock...Son of Brian and Kathy Wellock...Born 12-3-84...Management major...Has one brother, Austin, who is a member of the Ashland University football team...Father, Brian, is a graduate of the University of Akron and the University of Arizona and mother, Kathy, is a University of Akron graduate...EMU: One of the top placekickers in the NCAA Division I ranks for the past three seasons...Finished runnerup for the 2004 Lou Groza Award as the top placekicker in the NCAA Division I ranks...Also made the Lou Groza Watch list in his other two seasons...Selected as an Associated Press third-team All-American after an outstanding 2004 season...Selected to the preseason All-Mid-American Conference team by The Sporting News and also listed on that publication’s All-American watch list...Has been EMU’s starting placekicker in all 34 games over the past three years and was the starting punter in the last two campaigns...Selected as a 2005 second-team All-American preseason pick by The Sporting News...Set the EMU career field-goal record during the 2005 season and now has 53 career three pointers...Also holds the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in single-season field goals with 21 in 2004 and 18 in 2005...Has two 52-yard field goals, against Idaho (Oct. 2, 2004) and at Buffalo (Nov. 19, 2005), to tie for the longest field goal in school history...Two-time Academic All-Mid-American Conference...2005: Served as the starting placekicker and punter in all 11 games...Named first-team All-MAC after connecting on 18-of-25 field goals, 22-of-24 PAT’s and punting 57 times for a 38.3 yards average with 21 punts inside the opponent’s 20-yard-line...Finished 13th in the nation in field goals with a 1.64 -per-game average and was 72nd in scoring with a 6.91 point-per-game average...Made the watch list for the Lou Groza Award, as the nation’s top placekicker, and the Ray Guy Award, which is awarded annually to the nation’s top punter...Selected as the the MAC Special Teams Player of the Week twice, for the Central Michigan game (Sept. 26) and the Buffaloe matchup Nov. 19... At Central he made a 36-yard field goal in overtime to give the Eagles a 23-20 win at Central Michigan (Sept. 24, 2005)...Also made a 19-yard field goal in that CMU game to give Eastern a 20-all tie and force the overtime session...In addition, he added a 25-yard field goal in the CMU game...Tied his own school record with a 52-yard field goal against Buffalo to earn his second Special Teams Award of the year...Tied his single-game EMU record with four field goals in the CMU and Ball State (Nov. 12, 2005) games...Ranked second in the MAC in field goal (1.64), third in field-goal percentage (.720), and fourth in scoring (6.9)...Named to the Academic All-MAC squad...2004: Named third-team All-American placekicker by The Associated Press and finished runner-up in the balloting for the Lou Groza Award as the top placekicker in the NCAA Division I-A ranks...Made 21-of-23 field goal attempts and 32-of-33 PAT’s...Kicked a 52-yard field goal against Idaho (Oct. 2) to tie the EMU record for longest field goal...Tied the EMU single-game record with four field goals, including a 24-yard boot in the fourth overtime, to give EMU a 61-58 win over Central Michigan (Nov. 6)...First-team All-Mid-American Conference selection...Named Academic All-MAC with a 3.67 GPA as an engineering technology major...Ranked third in Division I in field goals per game (1.91), and 16th in scoring (8.64 per game)...Selected as the MAC’s West Division Special Teams Player of the Week twice, for the Buffalo (Sept. 2) and Central Michigan games...Also chosen as the MAC Men’s Scholar-Athlete of the Week for the Western Michigan (Oct. 16) game...Named EMU’s Special Teams Player of the Week four times, against Buffalo, Toledo (Sept. 18), Bowling Green (Oct. 30) and Northern Illinois (Nov. 20)...Also singled out by the coaching staff for Championship Special Teams Performances against Florida (Sept. 11), and Western Michigan...2003: One of nine "true" freshmen to see action, starting in all 12 games...Became one of the top placekickers in the NCAA Division I-A ranks, connecting on 14-of-17 field goals to rank 35th in field goals per game at 1.17...Tied for the Mid-American Conference lead in field-goal percentage at 82.4 percent, and was fifth in field goals per game at 1.17...Named one of the semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award given annually to the top placekicker in the nation...Made all 23 PAT’s...Selected as the team’s Special Teams MVP...Also named Special Teams Player of the Week three times, for the Western Illinois (Sept. 4), Maryland (Sept. 27) and Toledo (Oct. 11) games...Tied an EMU single-game record for field goals with four against Western Illinois...Made his first eight consecutive field-goal attempts before missing a hurried 54-yarder against Western Michigan (Oct. 4)...Booted a 25-yard field goal in the 2004 Spring Intrasquad Game...Selected as one of the 10 members of the Champions Club by Head Coach Jeff Genyk as one of the outstanding team leaders...HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Green H.S. in Green, Ohio where he played for Head Coach Elden McVicker...Earned two varsity football letters and three varsity soccer letters...Four-year member of the National Honor Society and received the Suburban League Scholar Athlete Award four years...Senior Year: Named first-team place kicker on The Associated Press Division II All-Ohio Team and was also a first-team Northeast Ohio Inland District Division II kicker by AP...First-team All-Suburban League kicker and punter...Selected first-team All-Summit County place-kicker by The Akron Beacon Journal...Nominated to the Player Pool for Ohio’s North versus South All-Star Game...Selected first-team placekicker on the 2002 Division II OhioPreps.com All-Star team...Named to Ray Guy’s Prokicker.com as one of the Top 100 Kicking Prospects in the National for 2003 college recruiting...Connected on 12-of-18 field goals with the longest a 48-yarder...Made all 28 PAT’s...Had a 38.7 punting average...Junior Year: First-team place-kicker on The Associated Press Division II All-Ohio Team...Named first-team Northeast Ohio Inland District Division II kicker by AP...Named first-team All-Suburban League punter...Selected second-team All-Summit and Portage County placekicker by The Cleveland Plain Dealer....Made 11-of-16 field goal attempts and 40-of-43 PAT’s.
