Christian Kapp on National Place-Kicker Watch List

2017 Aug 17

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Christian Kapp of Westchester 10501 has been selected for the Fred Mitchell Award 2017 Watch List. The list includes 36 of the nation's top collegiate place-kickers based on excellence on the football field during the 2016 season and for continued community service during their off-season. Among those listed are players from FCS, Division II, III, NAIA and NJCAA programs.

A senior, Kapp (Iona Prep.) is one of 11 from Division III included. He is under consideration following a junior season in which he was successful on 9 of 12 field goals and 32 of 32 point-after-touchdowns in 11 games. He had field goals in six different games, including a long of 47 yards, on his way to leading the Engineers in scoring with 59 points. Kapp's 51 kickoffs went for 2,943 yards for a 57.7 yard average. He had nine touchbacks.

Among his top performances was going 3 for 3 on field goals (30, 30 & 23 yards) and 6 for 6 on PATs in a 51-13 win at the University of Rochester and hitting a 20-yard field goal and all five point-after-touchdowns in a 38-6 win over SUNY Maritime in the ECAC Scotty Whitelaw Bowl. Kapp was the Liberty League Special Teams Performer of the Week twice, named to the conference's Second Team and was Rensselaer's Special Teams Player of the Year.

The industrial and management engineering major also earned Liberty League All-Academic honors and was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team. Kapp, a business and management minor, is a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He also co-founded Students for Service, which focuses on community volunteerism on a weekly basis.

Kapp, who has made 15 of 24 field goals and 73 of 75 PATs in his career, spent this summer on an internship at W.L. Gore & Associates as an operations specialist. He has also interned at Irving Tissue.

The Fred Mitchell Award Watch List is released annually in August with top performers being recognized monthly during the college football season. The winner is announced in mid-December.

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