By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com ATLANTA, Ga. – Harrison Butker is a special teams dream player. The junior kicker from Atlanta, who had a season to remember for Westminster, Ga., has been selected as the National High School Player of the Year by Ray Guy Prokicker.com. Butker was the first-team kicker and third-team punter on the inaugural list of Ray Guy Prokicker.com All-Americans that was released earlier this week. Butker, who is 6-foot-4 and 175 pounds, was first-team All-State in Class AA after making 16 of 17 field goals, a success rate of 94.1 percent. He also made his last…

ATLANTA - Harrison Butker, who earlier this month was named the first Ray Guy Prokicker.com National Player of the Year, has been offered by Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson. Butker, a junior who made 16 of 17 field goals for Westminster, Ga., said he was offered by Georgia Tech on Friday, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The junior kicker from Atlanta, who is 6-foot-4 and 175 pounds, was first-team All-State in Class AA after making 16 of 17 field goals, a success rate of 94.1 percent. He also made his last dozen field goals to help Westminster to the…

By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com ATLANTA, Ga. – Harrison Butker is a special teams dream player. The junior kicker from Atlanta, who had a season to remember for Westminster, Ga., has been selected as the National High School Player of the Year by Ray Guy Prokicker.com. Butker was the first-team kicker and third-team punter on the inaugural list of Ray Guy Prokicker.com All-Americans that was released earlier this week. Butker, who is 6-foot-4 and 175 pounds, was first-team All-State in Class AA after making 16 of 17 field goals, a success rate of 94.1 percent. He also made his last…

Westminster, Ga., junior Harrison Butker, a Ray Guy Prokicker.com camper, has been selected to play in the Georgia Junior Bowl, an all-star game. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound Butker, rated the nation's top high school kicker by Prokicker.com, is among 90 players selected for the game who will return for their senior seasons next year, according to a Westminster announcement. Averaging  67.3 yards per kickoff last season for the Wildcats, who advancd to the second round of the AA state playoffs, Butker made 16  field goals on 17 attempts, only missing a 59-yard effort. He also averaged 39.5 yards per punt. A…

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Here are the Ray Guy Prokicker.com winter camp competition winners from Augusta.   -Long distance field goal winner: Jon-Michael Kubu, 45 yards -Middle school long distance field goal winner:  Drew Poston -Long distance kick-off:  Justin Yoon, 75 yds 3.5 sec hang time -Hang time punt winner: Will Vanvick, 48 yds, 4.3 sec -Out of bounds right:  Alec D'Urbano - 2 yd line -Out of bounds left:  Jose Galvez, 2 yd line -Best single snap:  Bradley Tatko, .81 sec -Most accurate snapper:  Dalton Padgett, 19 points Four players were identified for the talent search: -Justin Yoon, K -…

By KELLY PRICE, Alligator Writer Austin Hardin is 5-foot-11, 200 pounds, squats twice that weight and maxed out benching 290 pounds last year. He said his 40-yard dash clocks in at 4.4 seconds. He regularly takes snaps for Atlanta Marist High as a corner, a strong safety or, depending on the sugar content of his coach’s breakfast cereal, a halfback. And he’s rated the nation’s No. 9 kicker by Rivals.com. “I guess I’m not your typical kicker,” said Hardin, a Florida oral commit. Hardin, who will be in Gainesville for the Alabama game this weekend, was hardly noticed before his…

By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com ATLANTA – Big numbers. Big instruction. Big talent. Some of the nation’s top kickers, punters and long-snappers were part of the biggest Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp of the summer on July 23-24 where nearly 100 campers converged on The Lovett School. Not only was there a wide range of talent on display but there was a wide range of ages. Ike Powell, who will be a rising sophomore as a member of the 2014 class and ranked third in the 2010 Prokicker.com national competition, proved he was doing nothing but getting better, said camp instructor…

ATLANTA – Competition results from the Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp at the Lovett School. Long Distance Field Goal High School: Tyler Newsome, 60 yards Long Distance Kickoff: Harrison Butker, 73 yards, 4.01 Hang Time Punt: Mac Miller, 35 yards, 4.67 Out of Bounds Punt Right: Troy Bray Out of Bounds Punt Left: Troy Bray Fastest Single Snap: Michael Sulka, .74 Most Accurate Snapper: Ike Powell, 25 of 30 TOP PROSPECTS Michael Sulka, long-snapper, 2012 Ike Powell, long-snapper, 2014 Tyler Newsome, kicker, 2014 Anthony Price, kicker, 2013 Harrison Butker, kicker, 2013 Patrick McAlpin, kicker, 2012 Rodrigo Blankenship, kicker, 2015

By David Johnson / The Walton Tribune One of the challenges of coaching a football team at a Class A school is building depth. Creating a two-deep roster at each position is a challenge. Finding a serviceable kicker is a rare luxury. So for Social Circle first-year head coach David Seawright, discovering Tanner Preston last fall was a silver lining in an otherwise stormy inaugural season. The Redskins were too generous on defense, giving up nearly 40 points a game, and struggled to develop consistency on offense. As a result, they went 2-8 and missed the postseason for the first…

Prokicker.com alum Eric Yang Eric Yang, plans to walk on at Kentucky after setting school records of 18 field goals and 67 extra points, then booting a 52-yard field goal in the senior all-star game, at Brockwood High School in Snellville, Ga. That's far from the former soccer player's initial impression of Broncos football, the season's 27-10 opening victory over Walton in the Corky Kell Classic at the Georgia Dome. "I'd never even been to a Brookwood football game before that," Yang told the Snellvillepatch. "I was afraid I wouldn't know what to do. (Football) was a totally different atmosphere…