Ankeny's current Place Kicker

Zeb Miller is Ankeny's current kicker. He is a junior this year. Currently he is a better soccer player than a football kicker, but with the coaching he will receive it would not susprise me if he gets a football scholarship in a couple of years. He is 6 foot 2 or 3 and probably weighs 175 or so. This weekend against Ft. Dodge he showed good leg strength and kicked a field goal. From the 40 he can kick it into the end zone if he kicks it low. When he kicked for hang time the ball traveled to about the 5. On extra points and field goals, he gets excellent height on his kicks. If he continues to improve he could be Ankeny's next kicker to get a scholarship. In soccer this last summer, Ankeny won the state championship and he was the starter at the back of the defense.

Sign him...

...now.


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Zac Guyer from Johnston is a better prospect IMO. He would already hold offers if it wasn't for an ACL injury that took him out a good portion of his junior season

We should've got Luke Walters or we should get Grant Mahoney

Its too bad Ankeny's kicking coach Peter Rameh is a big Hawk fan and enjoys making fun of Iowa State.

Two guys to keep an eye on

Greg Fleming
Ben Parks

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Originally Posted by CrossCyed

Two guys to keep an eye on

Greg Fleming
Ben Parks

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I have been looking up some pages and stats on Greg Fleming and although I believe he is only like a 1 star recruit, he looks like someone ISU would glad to be have kicking the ball for them. We really need to improve in the kicking game again...it is such an underrated part of football. He is also a "high" interest prospect for ISU along with the Chokeyes, Minnesota, and SD State. Ben Parks also sounds like a very good recruit (ranked #25 at his position on scout.com), but I have no idea how high interest we are for him compared to his other schools.

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Originally Posted by A-town Cy

Its too bad Ankeny's kicking coach Peter Rameh is a big Hawk fan and enjoys making fun of Iowa State.

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we should sick the complience linebacker on him

Guyer from Johnston is the real deal. Kicked out of the end zone on all of his kick offs last Friday night and had field goals of 42 and 47 yards.

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Originally Posted by A-town Cy

Its too bad Ankeny's kicking coach Peter Rameh is a big Hawk fan and enjoys making fun of Iowa State.

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Yeah, I live right near him, I see him drive every morning with those hawk license plates and it makes me sick. He needs to send a few up ISU's way. Ohh well, my boys are coming ISU! I will teach them to kick!

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Originally Posted by brianhos

Yeah, I live right near him, I see him drive every morning with those hawk license plates and it makes me sick. He needs to send a few up ISU's way. Ohh well, my boys are coming ISU! I will teach them to kick!

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What you do is enroll them in youth soccer (as much as you hate it), and then when junior high/middle school (depending how they do it in central Iowa) comes around ban them from the soccer fields. By then they will have learned the basics of kicking before the slide tackling as well as the other injury-related moves are allowed. Then you can get them kicking on an 8th grade football team.

Is there anyone on the roster that can help us THIS year or is Shanky all we got?

Culbertson misses two 47 yard field goal attempts and we have to send out an SOS for kickers? I'm pretty sure there are a few NFL kickers who will miss two 40+ yard field goal tries in a game this year and they won't be fired. Let's just chill out and see how he does the next few games.

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Originally Posted by Wx4Cy

Is there anyone on the roster that can help us THIS year or is Shanky all we got?

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wow! he misses 2 FGs (neither a chip shot) and all of the sudden he is being called Shanky? it amazes me how soon people jump ship sometimes. and the funny part is they are the same people who are jumping back on as soon as he hits a game winner. (and dont give me the "he cant hit it when the game is on the line" bull ****...step into this year)