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2014 Football Roster

Richard Svaleson
Joel Helbling
Luke Lu
Richard Svaleson
Luke Lu
Richard Svaleson
Richard Svaleson
Dennis Hubbard
Tyler Ingham
Tyler Ingham

17 Adam Keller

  • Position Place Kicker
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 205
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Lewisberry, Pa.
  • High School Red Land HS

Biography

* 2015 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
* 2014 AP All-America Third Team
* 2014 All-MVFC Honorable Mention
* 2012 All-MVFC First Team
* 2014 College Sporting News National All-Star
* 2014 College Football Performance.com Placekicker of the Week (2x)
* 2012, 2014 MVFC Special Teams Player of the Week
* 2014 MVFC All-Academic Honorable Mention
* 2011, 2014 MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award
* 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 MVFC Honor Roll


Graduated as NDSU's career leader in PAT kicks made (191) and attempted (198), field goals made (56) and percentage (.800) despite just three playing seasons...Ranked second in career field goal attempts (70) and third in scoring (359)...Went 14-for-19 outdoors with a long of 41 (three times) and 42-for-51 indoors with a long of 50 yards...Made 117 consecutive extra-point kicks over his final 28 games, a streak that ranks second in Missouri Valley Football Conference history...Part of four straight conference and national championship teams.

2014 SEASON (SENIOR): Set school, conference, and FCS single-season records with 29 field goals made...Finished 29 of 34, also setting a school record for most field goal attempts in a season...Went 11-for-14 from 40 or more yards, one make shy of the FCS record from that distance...Set NDSU scoring record with 145 points, which was also an FCS record for points by a kicker...Named Missouri Valley Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Week, College Sporting News National All-Star and CFPA Placekicker of the Week after a school-record five field goals and one PAT kick in the 22-10 home win over No. 3-ranked Montana...Also honored by the CFPA after scoring 17 points at South Dakota with four field goals and five PATs...Booted a career-long 50-yard field goal in the home win over Indiana State...Converted 58 of 59 PAT kicks with the final attempt blocked in the national championship game...MVFC Honor Roll and Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award.

2013 SEASON (JUNIOR): Battled through hip injury to set team records for the second straight season in extra points made (76) and attempted (78)…Converted 9 of 12 field goal attempts including a season-long 48-yarder against Coastal Carolina in the NCAA quarterfinal win…Led the Bison with 103 points scored…Named to the MVFC Honor Roll.
 
2012 SEASON (SOPHOMORE): All-Missouri Valley Football Conference first team...Led the team in scoring with 111 points...Connected on 18 of 24 field goals setting NDSU records for makes and attempts…Named MVFC Special Teams Player of the Week after tying the NDSU single-game record with four field goals made at Northern Iowa (9-29-12) on a record five attempts...Set NDSU single-season records in PATs made (57) and attempted (61) including a 9 of 9 performance vs. Prairie View A&M (9-22-12)…Named to the MVFC Honor Roll.
 
2011 SEASON (FRESHMAN): Backup to all-conference kicker Ryan Jastram...Didn’t appear in a game during the season, but continued to develop...MVFC Honor Roll and Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award.
 
2010 SEASON (REDSHIRT): Sat out as a redshirt in the Bison program...Named to the MVFC Honor Roll.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: 2010 graduate of Red Land High School in Lewisberry, Pa...Rated a five-star kicker by Kohl’s Kicking...All-conference kicker and honorable mention wide receiver for Red Land and head coach Frank Gay...Also played outside linebacker...Member of the 2007 Mid Penn Conference championship football team...Part of three straight conference champion baseball teams in 2007-08-09...All-conference center fielder...Played guard for two-time conference champion basketball team.
 
PERSONAL: Earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from NDSU in May 2014…Son of Robert and Pamela Jo Keller of Dover, Pa....Has one sister, Erin...Father played football for Carnegie Mellon (Pa.).

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Historical Player Information

  • 17

    2010Freshman

    Place Kicker
    6'2" 192 lbs
    17
  • 17

    2011Redshirt Freshman

    Place Kicker
    6'1" 201 lbs
    17
  • 17

    2012Sophomore

    Place Kicker
    6'1" 208 lbs
    17
  • 17

    2013Junior

    Place Kicker
    6'1" 204 lbs
    17
  • 17

    2014Senior

    Place Kicker
    6'1" 205 lbs
    17