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39 Griffin Crosa

  • Position Kicker
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 184
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Dublin, Ohio
  • High School Dublin Scioto HS

Biography

* 2024 All-MVFC Second Team
* 2023 All-MVFC Honorable Mention
* 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 MVFC Special Teams Player of the Week
* 2022, 2023, 2024 MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award
* 2022, 2023, 2024 MVFC Honor Roll
* 2024, 2025 NFF Hampshire Honor Society


Finished his career as NDSU's all-time scoring leader with 439 points...Set NDSU and NCAA FCS career records with 277 PATs made and 279 attempts...Second in school history with a career 99.3% PAT conversion rate...Had four of the top seven single-season marks for PATs made and attempted...Set the NDSU record for career field goal percentage with an 84.4% conversion rate...Finished second in NDSU history with 54 field goals made and was fourth with 64 attempts.

2024 SEASON (SENIOR): Returned to NDSU for an extra year due to the impact of COVID-19 on the 2020 season...All-Missouri Valley Football Conference second team placekicker...Handled the PATs and field goals in all 16 games for the NCAA Division I FCS national champions...Went 74-for-74 on PATs during the season, fourth most in NDSU single-season history...Only the seventh kicker in Bison history to have a 100% PAT conversion rate in a season...Made 12 of 14 field goals with his longest from 45 yards against North Dakota...Fourth-highest field goal percentage in NDSU single-season history at 85.7%...MVFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance against Missouri State making 8 of 8 PAT kicks and a 32-yard field goal to break the all-time NDSU scoring record...Named to the National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society...MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award...MVFC Honor Roll.

2023 SEASON (SENIOR): Honorable mention All-Missouri Valley Football Conference placekicker...Handled the PATs and field goals in all 15 games...Went 70-for-71 on PATs...Made 19 of 22 field goals, the second most field goals made and third-best single-season field goal percentage (86.4%) in NDSU history...Converted nine PATs in the NCAA first round win over Drake, the second most in NDSU single-game history...MVFC Special Teams Player of the Week after the win over Maine when he converted field goals from 27, 40 and 31 yards to stake the Bison to a 9-0 lead and added five extra-point kicks in the 44-7 win...MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award...MVFC Honor Roll...Named to the National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society.

2022 SEASON (JUNIOR): Handled the placekicking in all 15 games...Converted all 67 PAT attempts and 10 of 11 field goal attempts...Extended his streak of consecutive PAT conversions to 89 from 2019 through the end of the 2022 season....Made all four of his field goal attempts in the NCAA playoffs, including a career-long 47-yarder in the fourth quarter of NDSU's 35-32 semifinal win over Incarnate Word...Missouri Valley Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance at South Dakota, where he was 4-for-4 on PAT kicks and converted field goals from 26 and 25 yards...Named to the MVFC Honor Roll...Earned the MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award...Named to the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society.

2021 SEASON (REDSHIRT): Member of the Bison program, but did not participate in any games.

2020-21 SEASON (SOPHOMORE): Handled the PAT and field goal kicking duties in two home games against Illinois State and North Dakota...Made all six PAT attempts...Converted field goals from 41 and 35 yards against UND.

2019 SEASON (FRESHMAN): Thrust into the No. 1 kicker position with an injury to teammate Jake Reinholz in the first quarter of the season opener...Played in 14 of 16 games...Went 60-for-61 on PAT kicks...Converted 11 of 15 field goals with a long of 46 yards off the crossbar at Delaware...Missouri Valley Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Week after the Delaware game, where he made five PAT kicks and added a second field goal from 23 yards...Returned from a one-game suspension in the second round of the NCAA playoffs to account for all of the NDSU scoring in the 9-3 quarterfinal victory over Illinois State on field goals of 38, 33 and 22 yards all in the second quarter...Did not play in the national championship win over James Madison.

HIGH SCHOOL: Enrolled early at NDSU after graduating in December 2018 from Dublin Scioto High School in Dublin, Ohio...Four-year starting kicker and punter...First team all-conference and all-district senior...Second team all-state...Went 6 of 8 on field goals with a long of 46 yards...Converted all 38 PAT attempts...Averaged 38.5 yards per punt...Made 19 of 26 career field goal tries and all 115 PATs.

PERSONAL: Graduated from NDSU in May 2022 with a bachelor's degree in finance...Earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from NDSU in December 2024...Son of Fernando Crosa of Powell, Ohio, and Christina Crosa of Dublin, Ohio...Older brother, Sam, was a kicker for Western Illinois in 2017 and 2018 before transferring to Cincinnati in 2019...Father played Division I college soccer at Syracuse...Grandfather was a professional soccer player in Uruguay.

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Historical Player Information

  • 36

    2019Freshman

    Kicker/Punter
    6'1" 165 lbs
    36
  • 39

    2020Sophomore

    Kicker
    6'1" 166 lbs
    39
  • 39

    2021Junior

    Kicker
    6'1" 164 lbs
    39
  • 39

    2022Redshirt Junior

    Kicker
    6'1" 167 lbs
    39
  • 39

    2023Senior

    Kicker
    6'1" 177 lbs
    39
  • 39

    2024Senior

    Kicker
    6'1" 184 lbs
    39