Ray Guy Award

Ray Guy Award

Awarded for	College football's top punter
Country	United States
Presented by	Greater Augusta Sports Council
History
First award	2000
Most recent	Eddie Czaplicki, USC
Website	http://www.augustasportscouncil.org/

The Ray Guy Award is presented annually to college football's most outstanding punter as adjudged by the Augusta Sports Council. The award is named after punter Ray Guy, an All-American for Southern Mississippi and an All-Pro in the National Football League for the Oakland Raiders. The Ray Guy Award winner is determined by a national selection committee of football writers, FBS college coaches, sports information directors, and past Ray Guy Award winners.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	School	Ref
2000	Kevin Stemke	Wisconsin	[2]
2001	Travis Dorsch	Purdue	[3]
2002	Mark Mariscal	Colorado	[4]
2003	B. J. Sander	Ohio State	[5]
2004	Daniel Sepulveda	Baylor	[6]
2005	Ryan Plackemeier	Wake Forest	[7]
2006	Daniel Sepulveda (2)	Baylor	[8]
2007	Durant Brooks	Georgia Tech	[9]
2008	Matt Fodge	Oklahoma State	[10]
2009	Drew Butler	Georgia	[11]
2010	Chas Henry	Florida	[12]
2011	Ryan Allen (2)	Louisiana Tech	[13]
2012			[14]
2013	Tom Hornsey	Memphis	[15]
2014	Tom Hackett (2)	Utah	[16]
2015			[17]
2016	Mitch Wishnowsky		[18]
2017	Michael Dickson	Texas	[19]
2018	Braden Mann	Texas A&M	[20]
2019	Max Duffy	Kentucky	[21]
2020	Pressley Harvin III	Georgia Tech	[22]
2021	Matt Araiza	San Diego State	[23]
2022	Adam Korsak	Rutgers	[24]
2023	Tory Taylor	Iowa	[25]
2024	Eddie Czaplicki	USC	[26]

FCS Punter of the Year

FCS Punter of the Year Award was created in 2019 to honor FCS punters with leadership qualities as well as outstanding statistics.^[27]

Winners^[27]

Season	Player	School
2019	Alex Pechin	Bucknell
2020	D. J. Arnson	Northern Arizona
2021	Brian Buschini	Montana
2022	Patrick Rohrbach	Montana
2023	Aidan Laros	UT Martin

Footnotes

1. "Ray Guy Award information". Ray Guy Award. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
2. Mallozzi, Vincent M. (December 31, 2000). "Champions 2000; From Sydney To the Bronx, the Winners". The New York Times. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
3. "Dorsch wins Ray Guy Award". The Augusta Chronicle. December 7, 2001. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
4. "Colorado punter wins award". The Augusta Chronicle. December 13, 2002. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
5. "2003 Home Depot College Football Awards". ESPN.com. December 11, 2003. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
6. "Sports Briefing". The New York Times. December 10, 2004. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
7. Cagle, Spencer (December 8, 2005). "Plackemeier Wins Ray Guy Award". Scout.com. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
8. "Sepulveda Earns Second Guy Award". baylorbears.com. Baylor Athletics. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
9. "College 2007 Award Winners". Indiana Gazette. December 7, 2007. p. 18. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
10. Trotter, Jake (December 11, 2008). "Oklahoma State punter Matt Fodge wins Ray Guy Award". The Oklahoman. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
11. Weiszer, Mark (December 11, 2009). "Butler named nation's top punter". Athens Banner-Herald. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
12. English, Antonya (December 10, 2010). "Florida Gators' Chas Henry wins Ray Guy Award". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
13. "Louisiana Tech's Ryan Allen wins Ray Guy Award". USA Today. Associated Press. December 8, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
14. Gay, Chris (December 6, 2012). "Louisiana Tech punter Ryan Allen wins Ray Guy Award". The Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
15. "Memphis punter Tom Hornsey wins Ray Guy Award". Boston Herald. Associated Press. December 13, 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
16. Hightower, Kyle (December 11, 2014). "Utah punter Tom Hackett wins Ray Guy award". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
17. "Utah punter Tom Hackett wins second consecutive Ray Guy Award". Fox News. December 10, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
18. "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie: Utah's Wishnowsky wins Ray Guy Award". USA Today. Associated Press. December 8, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
19. "Texas P Michael Dickson wins the Ray Guy Award". Burnt Orange Nation. SB Nation. December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
20. "Texas A&M's Braden Mann honored as nation's best punter, wins Ray Guy Award". Dallas Morning News. December 6, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
21. Franklin, Drew (December 12, 2019). "Max Duffy wins Ray Guy Award for NCAA's best punter". Kentucky Sports Radio. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
22. Bonagura, Kyle (January 8, 2021). "Bama players take home several major awards". ESPN.com. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
23. Kenney, Kirk (December 9, 2021). "Aztecs' Matt Araiza wins Ray Guy Award as nation's top punter". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
24. Iseman, Chris (December 2, 2022). "Rutgers' Adam Korsak named Ray Guy Award winner as college football's top punter". Ashbury Park Press. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
25. Illustrated, Sports (December 8, 2023). "Tory Taylor Wins Ray Guy Award". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
26. On Sports, Last Word (December 12, 2024). "USC's Eddie Czaplicki Wins 2024 Ray Guy Award". Last Word On Sports. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
27. "The FCS Punter of the Year". rayguyaward.com. Retrieved August 1, 2024.

General references

• "Ray Guy Award Winners". Sports Reference. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

External links

• Official website