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Saturday, Sept 5
UABBirmingham, AL 3:00 PM Radio: ESPN 97.5 The Ticket
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Rice -- Accurate former walk-on who set school records for kick scoring and conversions who will miss spring practice while recovering from off-season surgery.
2008: Rice's career kick scoring leader with 217 points, including a career-best 91 this season... also set season and career marks for PAT conversions and attempts... has converted 154 of 155 in his career, including a perfect 73 of 73 this year and has converted 86 straight since missing his first attempt vs. SMU in 2007 (had converted the first 68 in his career). 73 PATs smashed his previous season record of 47 set last year....has the highest career percentage (.993) among all C-USA kickers who have attempted at least 130 PATs... Ranks second on the C-USA career list in both PAT conversions and attempts... Broke the school and C-USA single-game records by converting 11 PATs vs. North Texas ... 11 points in the game were also a career-high... Kicked his 21st career field goal in the Texas Bowl and ranks sixth on the career FG list... Brennan Landry is fifth with 22... Kicked off twice vs. Vanderbilt and was credited with his first career tackle... Candidate for CoSIDA District VI academic honors with a 3.33 grade point average in Mathematical Economic Analysis. 2007: Broke the Rice season marks with 46 PATs and 47 PAT attempts... Tied the Owls single-game mark by converting eight PATs against UTEP... Saw his streak of consecutive PATs to start his career end at 68 when he missed his first attempt at SMU. Streak was the longest streak by an Owl and was the eighth longest active streak in the NCAA at that time... Ranks third on the Owls career chart with 81 PATs ... Kicked a career-best 46-yard field goal at Houston... C-USA Special Teams Player of the Week after kicking the winning field goal as time ran out at SMU.
2006: Consensus All-C-USA freshman pick after converting all 35 PAT attempts... Was also 8 of 11 in field goal attempts to finish third on the team in scoring with 59 points... Named C-USA special teams player of the week after he beat ECU with a 40-yard field goal with three seconds left... Booted a career-best 43-yard field goal in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, which also represented the first field goal for the Owls in their bowl history... Thirty-five PATs matched the second best single season total in school history, tying Johnny Bagwell, who converted all 35 of his attempts as a freshman in 1993... Fangmeier's 35-of-35 effort was the most without a miss by a freshman kicker in the nation in 2006 (freshman all-America kicker Bret Swenson of Michigan State was 33 of 33)... Six perfect PATs at Army matched the third highest total PATs in a game by an Owl... Did not appear vs. Houston, but made his debut the following week at UCLA with his first PAT... Also handled the kick-off chores at Florida State and Army... Kicked two field goals against Tulsa. High School -- 2006 graduate of Northland Christian School in suburban north Houston... Three-year starter for coach Nathan Sandford... Northland Christian's male athlete of the year in 2005-06... Twice an all-state placekicker in TAPS Class 3A... Twice all-district and the his league's special teams most valuable player in 2005... Had a 55-yard field goal as a junior and a 47-yard three-pointer as a senior... Also a two-time all-district selection in soccer... Chose Rice over Missouri, Kansas State and Harvard. Personal -- Full Name: Clark Jonathan Fangmeier... Born: June 10, 1987, at Houston... Parents: Keith and Anne Fangmeier, Houston (three brothers)... Rice Major: mathematical economic analysis.
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