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Jersey Number 62
Bryce Messner
- Position:
- Offensive Guard
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 291
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- McVille, N.D.
- High School:
- Dakota Prairie HS
* 2016, 2017 MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award
* 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 MVFC Honor Roll
IN HIS CAREER: Played in 38 career games including 16 starts...Made all 15 starts at left guard on the 2017 national championship team as a senior...Appeared in all 14 games as a junior as a backup guard or tight end...Made one start against South Dakota in the regular-season finale...Also part of NDSU's punt shield protection...Played defensive tackle his first three seasons, including a redshirt year in 2013...Made three tackles in nine games played...Four-time MVFC Honor Roll member...Two-time MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award nominee.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated in 2013 from Dakota Prairie High School...Four-year letterwinner and three-year starter on offensive and defensive lines...Played guard, center, tight end and defensive end...Selected to the 2013 Shrine Bowl 9-Man East team...All-region selection as junior and senior...Two-year starter and all-conference forward/center for basketball team...Set records for shot put and discus for Nelson County track and field teams...Two-year starter at designated hitter and first base for Dakota Prairie baseball team...Member of the National Honor Society and Academic Challenge team.
PERSONAL: Graduated from NDSU in May 2017 with a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics...Son of Gregory and Karla Messner...Has two brothers, Brock and Brent...Grandfather, Francis Ophaug, brother, Brock and cousin attended NDSU...Brent played football for Minnesota-Crookston.
* 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 MVFC Honor Roll
IN HIS CAREER: Played in 38 career games including 16 starts...Made all 15 starts at left guard on the 2017 national championship team as a senior...Appeared in all 14 games as a junior as a backup guard or tight end...Made one start against South Dakota in the regular-season finale...Also part of NDSU's punt shield protection...Played defensive tackle his first three seasons, including a redshirt year in 2013...Made three tackles in nine games played...Four-time MVFC Honor Roll member...Two-time MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award nominee.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated in 2013 from Dakota Prairie High School...Four-year letterwinner and three-year starter on offensive and defensive lines...Played guard, center, tight end and defensive end...Selected to the 2013 Shrine Bowl 9-Man East team...All-region selection as junior and senior...Two-year starter and all-conference forward/center for basketball team...Set records for shot put and discus for Nelson County track and field teams...Two-year starter at designated hitter and first base for Dakota Prairie baseball team...Member of the National Honor Society and Academic Challenge team.
PERSONAL: Graduated from NDSU in May 2017 with a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics...Son of Gregory and Karla Messner...Has two brothers, Brock and Brent...Grandfather, Francis Ophaug, brother, Brock and cousin attended NDSU...Brent played football for Minnesota-Crookston.
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