2011 Football Roster
Sep 12 (Fri)
5:30 PM
Keegan LaMar
- Position:
- Long Snapper
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 265
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Boulder, Colo.
- High School:
- Fairview
AT COLORADO: This Season (Soph.)For the second straight year, he enters the fall listed second at both the short and long snapper positions.
2012 (Fr.-RS) Did not see any action; he was the back-up long and short snapper the entire season.
2011 (Fr.)Redshirted; was the second-team snapper but was never called upon. He joined the team as a recruited walk-on for August camp.
HIGH SCHOOLHe earned All-Colorado honors (Denver Post) at long snapper as a senior, when he also garnered first-team All-State honors and second-team All-State honors on the offensive line (center). He was a first-team All-North Metro League performer as a junior and senior. He was Fairview’s long snapper for four years, and took over the starting chores at center four games into his freshman year after the player ahead of him was injured. As a four-year starter and in over 2,000 plays from scrimmage (every snap his sophomore through senior years), he allowed just three sacks (none as a senior, one as a junior) and was called for just eight penalties (one his senior season). He centered balls both under center and in the shotgun formations. Under Coach Tom McCartney, the one-time CU graduate assistant and son of former Buff head coach Bill McCartney, Fairview was 5-6 his senior year, 12-2 his junior season (reaching the state semifinals), 5-5 his sophomore year and 2-8 his freshman season. He also played four years of basketball (power forward), lettering as a senior when he averaged 5.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.
ACADEMICSHe is majoring in Business (Finance & Marketing) at Colorado. A member of Fairview’s All-Academic team as a prep. He aspires to own a sports medicine complex after graduation.
PERSONALHe was born Sept. 2, 1992 in Barrington, Ill. His hobbies include playing most sports. His father (Kevin) played football (offensive line) at Stanford and in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills (in 1987) and then briefly with the San Francisco 49ers. His father was on the field for perhaps the most famous play in college football historyhe was on the kickoff coverage unit for Stanford in the California game when the Bears scored as time ran outthrough the Cardinal band. An older brother (Kyle) played football and lacrosse at CSU-Pueblo. He has volunteered for the YMCA during the summers in high school.
