By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com RICHMOND – Ray Guy Prokicker.com All-American kicker Zach Burgy-VanHoose is glad to have the college decision behind him. The Pikeville (Ky.) High School senior decided on Eastern Kentucky University on Wednesday where he hopes to become the kickoff specialist. “I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders is the best way to describe it,” Burgy-VanHoose said. “I’ve been stressed out the past couple of weeks.” Burgy-Vanhoose’s strong kicking leg helped him to first-team All-American status on the inaugural Ray Guy Prokicker.com All-American team. He boomed 85 percent of his kickoffs for touchbacks…

MT. STERLING, Ky. - Montgomery County High School long-snapper Travis Taulbee has settled on nearby Eastern Kentucky University as his college choice. He will sign a National Letter of Intent on Wednesday. “It’s close to home and a really good program, a winning program,” Taulbee said. “I figured I could further my long-snapping abilities there.” Taulbee has been a long-snapper since his middle school days in the Montgomery County school system. He was a center and defensive end for the Indians the last three years. He also has been the long-snapper for three years. Taulbee attended Ray Guy Prokicker.com camps…

RICHMOND, Ky. - Prokicker.com staff member Jordan Berry, a punter for Eastern Kentucky University, is second in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 40.6 average and the Colonels' net punting average of 39.2 leads the league and is fifth in the NCAA statistics.

Eastern Kentucky University sophomore kicker Luke Pray’s 49-yard field goal in a 48-16 victory at Eastern Illinois was the longest successful EKU kick since Taylor Long netted a 50-yard attempt on Oct. 25, 2008 against EIU.

RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky University sophomore punter Jordan Berry is off to an amazing start. Berry has punted six of 14 kicks inside the 20 in the first two games. In the opening week during a 10-7 loss to Kansas State, he was named the Ohio Valley Conference Specialist of the Week after averaging 41.8 on 10 punts. He had booming punts of 67 and 61 yards and put K-State inside the 20 on four kicks. He averaged 46.8 yards per kick on four attempts in Saturday’s win over Missouri State. He put two inside the 20 and had…

By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky University’s Dean Hood puts a premium on special teams. So when the Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp comes to the EKU campus every summer, the Colonels’ head coach is always around watching – and learning. He’s scouting talent and admiring the work of the professional staff of Prokicker.com, led by former EKU punter Rick Sang. “I own the camp technically but Rick runs it the way he wants to run it,” Hood said. “He’s the best in the country at doing what he does.” Several top prospects were showing off their…

By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com RICHMOND, Ky. – Nobody has to sell Taylor Long on the importance of participating in kicking camps. Long, who was an All-American kicker for Eastern Kentucky University in 2008, credits the Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp he attended in Richmond prior to his senior year of high school as getting him on the Colonels’ campus the next four years. With then head coach Danny Hope watching the camp, Long boomed a 50-yard field goal at the end of the second day. “I ended up with a full scholarship,” Long said. “The Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp here…