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Selected
The Sporting News Second-Team Punter |
| MUNCIE, Ind. --
Chris Miller (Libertyville, Ill./Carmel H.S.), a
sophomore punter for the Ball State University football
team, has been named to The Sporting News All-America
Second Team. |
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Miller was named to the
All-Mid-American Conference First Team for a second
consecutive campaign in 2006 after leading the league with
a 46.26 punting average. With only the bowl games
remaining, Miller ranks second in the country in
punting behind only Baylor’s Daniel Sepulvada’s 46.48
average. |
| Miller punted
57 times for 2,637 yards with a long punt of 78 yards. Of
his 57 punts, 20 were placed inside the opponent’s
20-yard line, 10 were touchbacks and six were fair
catches. Opponents returned 26 punts against the Cardinals
this season and averaged only 7.2 yards per punt with 15
yards being the longest return this season. Ball State’s
net punting in 2006 is 38.28, which ranks sixth in the
country. |
| Miller’s 2,637
punt yards is the 10th highest single-season total in Ball
State history, while his 46.3 average is the second best
in Ball State annals, behind only Brad Maynard’s 46.5
average in 1995. |
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Miller
also received honorable mention on the SI.com All-America
Team this year, and was a co-recipient of Ball State’s
Bill Reynolds Special Teams Player of the Year Award,
which is given in the memory of Reynolds, who spent 31
years as a volunteer in the Ball State athletics
department with an emphasis on the football program prior
to his death in the summer of 2000. |
