2008 Football Roster
Roster
Patrick Shadle
- Position:
- Kicker
- Height:
- 5-8
- Weight:
- 201
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Morgantown, WV
- High School:
- Morgantown
Career Biography (PDF Format)
2008 All-America and Lou Groza Award Candidate
At SU: Three letters … Set the Syracuse record for field goal accuracy (80.0 percent) … Ranks sevent on SU’s career field goals made list (40) and 10th on SU’s all-time attempts list (33) … His 189 career points ranks 10th on SU’s all-time list … One of six true freshmen to participate in 2005 … Member of the 2005 Fall, 2006 Spring, 2006 Fall and 2008 Spring Athletic Director’s Honor Roll … 2005, 2006 and 2007 BIG EAST All-Academic Team selection.
Senior Year (2008): Lou Groza Award semifinalist … Elected team captain … Place kicker for all 12 games … Ranked fourth in the BIG EAST in field goals per game (1.17), third in field goal percentage (82.4) and fifth in kick scoring (5.6 ppg) … His 80.0 career accuracy percentage is 11th among active kickers in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly 1-A) … At Northwestern, hit a 36-yard field goal on Syracuse’s opening drive … Against Akron, was 4-of-4 on PATs … Against Penn State, connected on two 44-yard field goals and one PAT … Earned BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll recognition for his performance against the Nittany Lions … Against Northeastern, hit three field goals, a 46-yarder in the first quarter and two in the fourth quarter (32 yards and 21 yards, respectively) … Also had two PATs against the Huskies … Against Pittsburgh, made a 25-yard field goal and connected on three PATs … At West Virginia, hit a career-long 53-yard field goal, setting a Mountaineer Field record in his hometown … The kick tied for the fourth longest in Syracuse history … Also had a 26-yard field goal against the Mountaineers … At South Florida, hit two field goals connecting on a 43-yarder, a 26-yarder and one PAT… Against Louisville, hit all four PATs … At Rutgers, hit two PATs and a 47-yarder … At Connecticut, scored two PATs … At Notre Dame, scored six points, including a 48-yard field goal and three PATs … At Cincinnati, had one field goal and one PAT.
Junior Year (2007): One of 34 players to play in every game … Against Washington, hit two field goals of 42 yards … Against Illinois, hit field goal kicks of 44 and 42 yards and two PAT’s … At Louisville made one field goal from 26-yards and was 5-of-5 on PAT’s … At Miami (OH), missed on a 50-yard FGA but was 2-2 on PAT’s … Against West Virginia, was 2-of-2 on PAT’s … Against Rutgers, made two PAT’s … Against Buffalo, hit two field goals (32, 22) and two PAT’s … At Pittsburgh, connected on a 36-yard field goal .. Against South Florida, hit a career-long 50-yard field goal at the end of the first half … At Connecticut, made one PAT … Against Cincinnati, made a 43-yard field goal and converted 4-of-4 PAT’s.
Sophomore Year (2006): Kicked field goals or PATs in all 12 games … Lou Groza Award semifinalist (nation’s top kicker) … Earned SI.com mid-season All-America honors … Tied for 21st in the nation and fourth in the BIG EAST in field goals made per game at 1.33 … Had a string of 12 consecutive field goals made … Hit at least one field goal in 11 of SU’s 12 games (did not attempt a field goal against Rutgers) … His .889 field goal percentage led the BIG EAST and was second on SU’s single-season record list … His 16 field goals is two shy of the SU single-season record of 18 set by Gary Anderson in 1981, and the most since John Biskup’s 16 in 1992 … At Wake Forest, connected on a 46-yard field goal and made his only PAT attempt … Against Iowa, was 2-of-3 on field goals and 1-of-1 on PATs… At Illinois, made a 36-yard field goal and was 4-of-4 on PATs … Against Miami (OH), earned BIG EAST Special Teams Player of the Week after connecting on 2-of-2 field goals and 4-of-4 PATs (10 points) … Against Wyoming, earned BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll recognition after scoring 10 points for the second consecutive game(2-of-2 field goals and 4-of-4 PATs) … Against Pittsburgh, made his only field goal and PAT attempts … At West Virginia, hit a 34-yard field goal and was 2-of-2 on PATs … Against Louisville, made 2-of-2 field goals and his only PAT attempt … At Cincinnati, successful on his 12th consecutive field goal, a 23-yard kick … At South Florida, was 1-of-2 on field goals and 1-of-1 on PATs … Against Connecticut, hit 2-of-2 field goals and 2-of-2 PATs … At Rutgers, was 1-of-1 on PATs.
Freshman Year (2005): Played in one game … Attempted his first career field goal against Buffalo, missing from 39 yards.
High School: Three-time first-team all-state and first-team all-conference … Set West Virginia state record with 105 points kicking … 9-for-14 on field goals as a senior and 78-for-82 on PATs … Career-long 50-yard field goal … Three-time All-Dominion Post First-Team selection … High school coach: John Bowers … Recruited by former asssistant coach Steve Dunlap.
Personal: Patrick Quinn Shadle … Born in January 1987 in Morgantown, W. Va. … Son of Marcie and Larry Shadle … One brother, one sister … Majoring in health and exercise science.
