Chris Freeman

Photo by: CLARUS MULTIMEDIA

Position:
Kicker
Class:
Graduate Student
Height:
6-1
Weight:
200
Hometown:
Zionsville, IN
High School:
Zionsville HS
Prev School:
Indiana

2024 (Grad Season): Appeared in all 13 games...Led team in scoring with 109 points...Twenty made on twenty-six field goal attempts…Perfect on all forty-nine extra point kicks…Recorded season-high four field goals in win over Buffalo (Sept. 27), tying a UConn school record…Achieved career long 53-yard field twice, against Wake Forest (Oct. 19), marking the longest field goal by a UConn kicker at Rentschler Field, and again in the regular season finale win at Massachusetts (Nov. 30)...Kiicked off eighty-two times for a total of 5,159 yards…Tallied forty-six touchbacks on kickoffs...Started the season 0-3 on field goals before making 11-straight, tying a UConn school record.

PRIOR TO UCONN: Heads to Storrs after kicking at Indiana University…A grad transfer who will have two seasons of eligibility remaining…Started all of 12 games in 2022 as the team's kickoff specialist and took over field goal duties in 2023…Appeared in all 12 games this past fall, and finished the year 10-of-14 on field goal attempts with a long of 50 yards…Converted 29 of 30 PATs and led the team with 59 points on the year…Had 24 touchbacks on his 50 kickoffs…Made his first career field goal against Ohio State early in the season…Hit his 50-yarder against Wisconsin…Had a pair of field goals in games against Akron and Wisconsin…In 2022 had 41 kickoffs and averaged 63.2 yards per kick with 22 touchbacks…Was a walk-on in 2020 fall camp after a three-year football and soccer letterwinning career at Zionsville HS…Holds the school record in football for field goals made and longest field goal (52 yds)…On the soccer pitch, was named the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association's Male Soccer Player of the Year, the Indiana Soccer Gatorade Player of the Year, a first-team All-American, and the United States Soccer Coaches Association first-team Academic All-American.