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2016 Football

22 Austin Smestad

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Shoreview, Minn.
  • Highschool Mounds View

Biography

2016: First-team all-UAA and second-team all-SAA ... CoSIDA Second-Team Academic All-America ... Played in all 11 games of the season ... Sixth on the team with 162 rushes for 823 yards and 13 touchdowns ... Ran for career-high 197 yards and three TDs in 49-46 win vs. Hendrix (11/5) ... D3football.com Team of the Week on Sept. 27 ... UAA Offensive Athlete of the Week on Sept. 26 and Nov. 7 ... WUSTL Offensive Player of the Week vs. Birimingham Southern ... CoSIDA Academic All-District ... National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society ... UAA Presidents Council Scholar-Athlete ... Academic all-UAA.

2015: Appeared in all 10 games and was second on the team and fifth in the UAA in rushing yards (486) ... Tied for team lead and was fourth in UAA in rushing touchdowns (6) ... Ran for a season-high 87 yards on 11 carries at No. 19 Centre (9/19) ... CoSIDA Academic All-District 5 ... Academic all-UAA.

2014: Started three of 10 games played at running back ... Ran for a team-high 377 yards and four touchdowns ...Second in the UAA in touchdowns (4) and fourth in rushing yards and yards per game (37.7) ... Ran for a career-high 85 yards and a TD in 59-19 win vs. Hendrix (10/11) ... UAA Offensive Athlete of the Week on Oct. 13 … WUSTL Offensive Player of the Game vs. North Park ... Capital One First-Team Academic All-District 5 ... Academic all-UAA ... 

2013: Worked way on to two-deep late in season … Picked up 196 rushing yards on 52 carries in seven games as reserve running back  … Ran for career-high 50 yards on eight carries and had two catches for 16 yards in 29-0 win vs. Case Western Reserve (11/9). 

HIGH SCHOOL: Two-year letter winner in football and baseball at Mounds View High School … Ran for 534 yards and six touchdowns as a junior … Career totals include 974 yards and nine TDs … Team was 9-2 in 2011 and 8-2 in 2012 and conference champions … Two-time honorable-mention all-conference … Four-year academic letter … AP Scholar with honor.

PERSONAL: Majoring in chemical engineering … Son of Jack Smestad and Liz Parr-Smestad.

Statistics

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2016

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Historical Player Information

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    2013Freshman

    RB
    6'0" 195 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2014Sophomore

    RB
    6'0" 205 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2015Junior

    RB
    6'0" 205 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2016Senior

    RB
    6'0" 210 lbs
    22