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Jersey Number 16
Alejandro Mata
- Position:
- Kicker
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Buford, Ga.
- High School:
- Buford
- Prev School:
- Jackson State
- Major:
- Exploratory Studies
AT COLORADO
2024 (Jr.)
- Spent the 2024 season as the primary field goal and PAT kicker.
- Finished the season going 12-of-15 on field goals with a long of 47 and went 55-of-55 of PAT’s.
- Four-for-four on field goals 30-39 yards.
- Had 96 points on the season.
- Mata was named the Big 12 SPecial Teams Player of the Week after his performance on the road against Arizona in week seven. He was 6-6 on all of his kicks including 2-2 on field goals.
- All-Big 12 Coaches Honorable Mention Place Kicker.
- CFN All-Big 12 Honorable Mention Place Kicker.
- Hit 10 of his 12 Field Goal attempts on the year (83.33%).
- Season-long 47-yard field goal against Utah in the last game of the season.
- Kicked a game-winning field goal in Tempe against Arizona State as time expired.
- Played all 13 games as a true freshman at Jackson State in 2022.
- He hit 12-of-13 field goals and 50-of-51 extra points for 86 points.
- Earned third-team FCS Freshman All-America honors.
- Named second-team All-SWAC.
- Both of his missed kicks were blocked.
- Played four seasons at Buford High School for coach Bryant Appling.
- Won the kicking job as a junior and handling all kicking duties his final two seasons on varsity.
- Buford won two state championships his final two years.
- Had the game-winning kick in both state championship games, hitting a field goal in OT his junior season to help Buford beat Lee County 34-31 and his PAT in 2021 gave Buford a 21-20 win over Langston Hughes.
- He hit on 16-of-23 field goals and 116-of-121 PATs combined as a junior and senior.
- As a senior, he hit on 60-of-63 PAT and 9-of-13 field goals.
- Named second-team all-state, first-team all-region and first-team all-conference as a senior.
- Named the Touchdown Club of Gwinnett Kicker of the Year as a senior.
- Junior season he hit on 7-of-10 field goals and 56-of-58 PATs.
- Earned first-team all-state by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Also named the Specialist of the Year, first-team all-region and first-team all-finals and first-team all-conference.
- At the Chris Sailer Kicking Camp, was named the FG Champion at the 2021 GA Spring Camp competition.
- Took second place in the Last Man Standing contest at camp in Las Vegas
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