2022 Football Roster
Podlesny, Jack
Jersey Number 96
Jack Podlesny
- Position:
- PK
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 180
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- St. Simons Island, Ga.
- High School:
- Glynn Academy
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Bio
Career Highs
* Most Field Goals Made: 4 vs. Samford, Missouri, 2022
* Longest Field Goal Made: 53 yards vs. Cincinnati, 2021 (2020 season)
* Most Points Scored: 15 (4x5 FGs, 3x3 PATs) vs. Samford, 2022
2022: Associated Press and Coaches' All-SEC First Team...has connected on 26 of 29 FG attempts this season...is 73-for-74 on PAT kicks...84 of his 109 kickoffs have resulted in either touchback or a fair catch...has one solo tackle and one assisted stop on two of the rare kickoffs that were returned...named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week after the Kent State game, when he was 3-for-3 on FGs...earned the honor again in win at Missouri, where he connected on all four FG attempts...had one solo tackle in the CFP National Championship Game win over TCU...one of 30 kickers named to the preseason watch list for the Lou Groza Award, which goes annually to the nation's top kicker and was won by his Bulldog predecessor, Rodrigo Blankenship, in 2019.
2021: Made 22 of 27 FG attempts on the season...season-long 49-yarder in CFP Championship game vs. Alabama...hit all three attempts (46, 30, 37) in win over #8 Arkansas...connected on one of two FG attempts in Georgia’s season-opening win over #3 Clemson...handled two kickoffs in win over UAB and both resulted in touchbacks...connected on his only FG attempt vs. South Carolina, a 36-yarder on the final play of the first half...converted both FG attempts in win at Vanderbilt, from 31 and 36 yards...included on pre-season watch list for the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation’s top collegiate placekicker.
2020: Semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award...Georgia’s top kicker, having won the job as a walk-on during preseason camp...finished the season 13x16 on field goals, 38 for 38 on PATs, and 12 of 21 kickoffs have resulted in touchbacks...named to the Associated Press All-Bowl Team...named Offensive MVP of the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl after converting all three of his FG attempts, including the game-winner from a career-long 53 yards with :03 left....saw his first collegiate action in the Bulldogs’ season-opening win at Arkansas...connected on both field-goal tries, both from 38 yards, and five of his six kickoffs resulted in touchbacks against the Razorbacks...perfect on three FG attempts vs. Tennessee, including a 47-yarder and a then-career-best 51 yarder...named a Lou Groza Award “Star of the Week” after Tennessee game, one of three nationally...also hit a 50-yard FG vs. Alabama...named to both the SEC Academic Honor Roll and the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll for Fall 2020.
2019: Participated in spring drills and played for both teams in the 2019 G-Day Game...attempted two field goals in the scrimmage, knocking home a 38-yard field goal to seal the Black team victory 22-17 with 1:01 remaining in the contest...named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll for Spring 2019.
2018: Walked on the team and took a redshirt.
High School: Glynn Academy, coached by Rocky Hidalgo…earned First Team All-Region honors his senior year…make nine of 10 field goals and 49 of 51 PATs...fifty-five of his 61 kickoffs resulted in touchbacks...as a senior, named to Principal’s Honor Roll his senior year…also captain of region champion soccer team...participated in National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society and the Beta Club…member of the Physics Club.
Personal: JACK MORGAN PODLESNY...son of Robert and Elizabeth Podlesny...received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Health during Fall 2021 commencement exercises...recipient of the Joe B. Maxwell Family Scholarship.
* Most Field Goals Made: 4 vs. Samford, Missouri, 2022
* Longest Field Goal Made: 53 yards vs. Cincinnati, 2021 (2020 season)
* Most Points Scored: 15 (4x5 FGs, 3x3 PATs) vs. Samford, 2022
2022: Associated Press and Coaches' All-SEC First Team...has connected on 26 of 29 FG attempts this season...is 73-for-74 on PAT kicks...84 of his 109 kickoffs have resulted in either touchback or a fair catch...has one solo tackle and one assisted stop on two of the rare kickoffs that were returned...named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week after the Kent State game, when he was 3-for-3 on FGs...earned the honor again in win at Missouri, where he connected on all four FG attempts...had one solo tackle in the CFP National Championship Game win over TCU...one of 30 kickers named to the preseason watch list for the Lou Groza Award, which goes annually to the nation's top kicker and was won by his Bulldog predecessor, Rodrigo Blankenship, in 2019.
2021: Made 22 of 27 FG attempts on the season...season-long 49-yarder in CFP Championship game vs. Alabama...hit all three attempts (46, 30, 37) in win over #8 Arkansas...connected on one of two FG attempts in Georgia’s season-opening win over #3 Clemson...handled two kickoffs in win over UAB and both resulted in touchbacks...connected on his only FG attempt vs. South Carolina, a 36-yarder on the final play of the first half...converted both FG attempts in win at Vanderbilt, from 31 and 36 yards...included on pre-season watch list for the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation’s top collegiate placekicker.
2020: Semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award...Georgia’s top kicker, having won the job as a walk-on during preseason camp...finished the season 13x16 on field goals, 38 for 38 on PATs, and 12 of 21 kickoffs have resulted in touchbacks...named to the Associated Press All-Bowl Team...named Offensive MVP of the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl after converting all three of his FG attempts, including the game-winner from a career-long 53 yards with :03 left....saw his first collegiate action in the Bulldogs’ season-opening win at Arkansas...connected on both field-goal tries, both from 38 yards, and five of his six kickoffs resulted in touchbacks against the Razorbacks...perfect on three FG attempts vs. Tennessee, including a 47-yarder and a then-career-best 51 yarder...named a Lou Groza Award “Star of the Week” after Tennessee game, one of three nationally...also hit a 50-yard FG vs. Alabama...named to both the SEC Academic Honor Roll and the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll for Fall 2020.
2019: Participated in spring drills and played for both teams in the 2019 G-Day Game...attempted two field goals in the scrimmage, knocking home a 38-yard field goal to seal the Black team victory 22-17 with 1:01 remaining in the contest...named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll for Spring 2019.
2018: Walked on the team and took a redshirt.
High School: Glynn Academy, coached by Rocky Hidalgo…earned First Team All-Region honors his senior year…make nine of 10 field goals and 49 of 51 PATs...fifty-five of his 61 kickoffs resulted in touchbacks...as a senior, named to Principal’s Honor Roll his senior year…also captain of region champion soccer team...participated in National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society and the Beta Club…member of the Physics Club.
Personal: JACK MORGAN PODLESNY...son of Robert and Elizabeth Podlesny...received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Health during Fall 2021 commencement exercises...recipient of the Joe B. Maxwell Family Scholarship.
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