2021 AGS Countdown - 54 DAYS!

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ETSU #54 not yet assigned.

St. Thomas #54:

54 Collin Patrick


Height 6-3

Weight 255

Class Junior

Hometown Gurnee, Ill.

Highschool Warren Township



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Harvard #54:

54 Jack McGowan


Height 6-1

Weight 220
Class Senior

Hometown Canton, Mass.

High School Catholic Memorial

Position LB

Concentration Government



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at Harvard:
2019: Played in all 10 games for the Crimson... Racked up 32 tackles on the season...Led Harvard in season opener at San Diego with eight total tackles... Added two tackles against Howard... Snatched first career interception against Cornell and returned it for 10 yards... Also had three tackles in the win over the Big Red with one coming for a three-yard loss... Recorded an interception in second consecutive game against Holy Cross... Also tackled one Crusader... Had two tackles against Princeton and added a pass break-up... Tackled five Big Green players against Dartmouth... Picked up five tackles against Penn as well as contributing on a tackle for loss... Tackled six Yale Bulldogs in 136th playing of The Game.

2018: Did not see game action.

2017: Played in eight games, making 13 tackles ... Had three tackles in win over Brown ... Had two tackles at Georgetown ... Made three tackles in win over Dartmouth.
Before Harvard
Four-year letterwinner and two-time captain at Catholic Memorial … Three-time Catholic Conference All-Star … Catholic Conference MVP as a senior … Named to MHSFCA All-State team … Selected to Boston Herald and Boston Globe All-Scholastic teams … USA Today Massachusetts Defensive Player of the Year … Also a four-year letterwinner in basketball … Member of National Honor Society and Rho Kappa History Honor Society … Father, Brian, played football at Central Connecticut State and mother, Kelly, played field hockey at Northeastern.

[The Cats]

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It's now 54 days until the kickoff of Catamount football on Saturday, September 4th, 2021, against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels, in E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee, NC.

No player is currently assigned # 54, so today we will highlight another assistant coach:


JJ Laster
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TITLE Assistant Coach / Wide Receivers


JJ Laster joined the Western Carolina football offensive coaching staff in the spring of 2021, coaching the Catamount wide receivers. He comes to Cullowhee after spending the 2019 season at Gardner-Webb where he coached the running backs and tight ends, while also overseeing the return teams for special teams.

While in Boiling Springs, Laster mentored a trio of All-Big South Conference selections in the three areas he coached. GWU running back Jaylin Cagle earned second-team All-Big South honors after rushing for 930 yards and eight touchdowns with four 100-yard rushing games in 2019, while tight end AJ Alexander was also a second-team selection, hauling in a career-high 16 passes for 155 yards and a TD. Devron Harper collected first-team All-Big South honors while also finishing as the runner-up for the conference’s freshman of the year accolade in addition to collecting first-team FCS Freshman All-America plaudits. Harper finished with 1,600 all-purpose yards in 2019 including 928 return yards that featured a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against FBS-foe, Charlotte.

Prior to Gardner-Webb, Laster spent three seasons coaching football at Tusculum University, first working with the Pioneers' running backs for two seasons and most recently the wide receivers for a year while also serving as the team's recruiting coordinator.

Laster had a distinguished playing career at Jacksonville University, where he was a two-time All-Pioneer Football League (PFL) selection and helped the Dolphins to conference championships in 2008 and 2010.

In 40 career games as a running back with the Dolphins from 2008 to 2011, Laster rushed for 1,796 yards on 343 carries (5.2 yards per carry) with 19 touchdowns while adding 67 receptions for 606 yards and two scores. Laster led FCS with 8.5 yards per rush in 2010 as he gained a career-best 810 yards on 95 carries with seven touchdowns to earn first-team all-PFL honors. As a senior, he had 610 yards rushing and 10 touchdowns while catching 41 passes for 317 yards and one score and was named second-team All-PFL.

After his playing career ended, Laster began his coaching career as a running backs coach at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., before returning to Jacksonville in 2014-15 as a graduate assistant coach working on the defensive side of the ball with the linebackers. In two seasons, Laster helped the Dolphins develop six All-PFL selections while assisting in developing the defensive game plan.

Laster's experience also includes serving as the running backs coach at Rockledge High School in Brevard County, Fla., where he oversaw the summer speed and conditioning workout program and helped with all other aspects of the offseason program.

Jesse James Laster, Jr. is a native of Graceville, Fla., where he set the school career rushing record at Graceville High before attending Jacksonville University. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in geography from Jacksonville in 2012 and a master of education in leadership and learning in 2015. He and his wife Rodricka Laster have a son, Jesse James Laster III (Third).

[Tribe4SF]

W&M

#54
Jarrett Heckert
Senior
Linebacker
6'3" 230
Annapolis, MD
Annapolis Area Christian School

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[dewey]

Here is #54 for the 16 time National Champions the North Dakota State University Bison.

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54
JAKE
KAVA
POSITION Defensive End
HEIGHT 6-1
WEIGHT 238
CLASS Sophomore
HOMETOWN Moorhead, Minn.
HIGH SCHOOL Shanley HS

Biography
* 2019 Phil Steele Freshman All-America Second Team
* 2018 MVFC Honor Roll

2019 SEASON (FRESHMAN): Played in 11 of 16 games...Made 12 tackles with 3.0 tackles for loss and 0.5 sacks...His only pass breakup of the year was a deflection against North Dakota that resulted in an interception by safety Michael Tutsie...Season-high three tackles in the home win over South Dakota...Named to the Phil Steele FCS Freshman All-America second team.

2018 SEASON (REDSHIRT): Took a redshirt year with the Bison and did not play in any games...Named to the MVFC Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2018 graduate of Shanley High School...Four-year starter for coaches Rod Oksendahl and Troy Mattern...Played linebacker and tight end...Three-time all-conference and all-state linebacker...Totaled 312 career tackles...Part of Shanley teams that went 40-7 and advanced to three state championship games...All-conference in basketball...Also participated in track and golf.

PERSONAL: Majoring in marketing...Son of Edward and Mary Kava...His brother, Joe Kava, joined the Bison program in 2020...Father played football at Minnesota-Crookston...Mother played basketball at Concordia College (Minn.).

Good luck with the upcoming season and in the classroom Jake.

Go Bison!

Dewey

[SFA 93]

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DE:#54 AMAD MURRAY 6-3; 245 Huntsville, Texas (Huntsville) (So.)

2020 Started in all 10 games of the season recorded 22 tackles with 6 for a loss, 1 sack and 4 QBH.

2019 (Freshman): Played in all 12 games ... Recorded 42 tackles ... Tallied a season-high eight tackles against Nicholls (Sept. 21) ... Claimed three sacks on the season ... Lead the Lumberjacks with seven quarterback hurries for the season.

2018 (Redshirt): Played in one game utilizing his redshirt season … Made his Lumberjack debut at defensive end at 16th-ranked Nicholls (Nov. 1), where he claimed six tackles including three solo stop … Also recorded a tackle for loss against the Colonels.

Prior to SFA: Played for head coach Rodney Southern at Huntsville High School … Two-year letter winner in both football and basketball … Named District 20-5A Defensive Player of the Year and claimed first-team all-district honors as a senior … Helped lead the Hornets back to the playoffs his senior year after a one-year absence … A post player on the hardwood … Son of Kathy and Arthur Murray.

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Montana #54

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Tyler Flink - LB
Sophomore
5'11", 227 lbs.
Missoula, MT
Big Sky HS
Major: (unknown)


'19 Stats:

9 Tackles

Career Stats (incl. Spring '21):

11 Tackles