University of Connecticut Athletics
2025 Football Roster
Chris Freeman
- Position:
- Kicker
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 200
- Hometown:
- Zionsville, IN
- High School:
- Zionsville HS
- Prev School:
- Indiana
Named to the 2025 Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List
2024 (Grad Season): Appeared in all 13 games...Led team in scoring with 109 points...Twenty made on twenty-six field goal attemptsโฆPerfect on all forty-nine extra point kicksโฆRecorded season-high four field goals in win over Buffalo (Sept. 27), tying a UConn school recordโฆAchieved 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 yardsโฆTallied 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:ย Heads to Storrs after kicking at Indiana UniversityโฆA grad transfer who will have two seasons of eligibility remainingโฆStarted all of 12 games in 2022 as the team's kickoff specialist and took over field goal duties in 2023โฆAppeared in all 12 games this past fall, and finished the year 10-of-14 on field goal attempts with a long of 50 yardsโฆConverted 29 of 30 PATs and led the team with 59 points on the yearโฆHad 24 touchbacks on his 50 kickoffsโฆMade his first career field goal against Ohio State early in the seasonโฆHit his 50-yarder against WisconsinโฆHad a pair of field goals in games against Akron and WisconsinโฆIn 2022 had 41 kickoffs and averaged 63.2 yards per kick with 22 touchbacksโฆWas a walk-on in 2020 fall camp after a three-year football and soccer letterwinning career at Zionsville HSโฆHolds the school record in football for field goals made and longest field goal (52 yds)โฆOn 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.
