Alex Bales Season 2020

2021: Played in all 13 games this season...Totaled 4,985 yards on kickoffs, including 43 touchbacks...Was 12- 13 on PATs...Made two out of five field goal attempts, including a career-high 52-yarder against Navy.

2020: Made his UC debut in the AAC Championship Game against Tulsa, kicking off five times with a pair of touchbacks. Saw action in two games and averaged 58.5 yards per kickoff.

2019: Redshirted.

PRIOR TO UC: Kicked for Coach Jake Gilbert at Westfield HS in Indiana ... Kohl’s Kicking lists him as a 4.5 star kicker and punter and ranked him as a Top-50 kicker in the 2019 class ... holds the Westfield career records for touchbacks and punts inside the 20 ... was the Rocks Special Teams Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018 ... a 2018 Associated Press Indiana Class 6A All-State and first-team all-conference selection ... hit a long field goal of 47 yards as a senior ... was also 19-of-20 on extra points, hit 29 of 34 kickoffs for a touchback and had a long punt of 58 yards ... earned Second-Team All-County honors in 2017 ... holds the school’s single-season marks with 17 punts dropped inside the 20 in 2017 ... won the kickoff competition at the 2017 Kohl’s Future Stars Camp ... was the 2016 Kick-It Champion, raising over $1,000 to help kids battle cancer ... hit Westfield’s longest-ever field goal in 2015, a 51-yard effort.