Keith Duncan (born February 19, 1998) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

placekicker. He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Early life and high school

Duncan grew up in

Weddington, North Carolina Weddington is a suburban town in Union County, North Carolina, Union County, North Carolina, United States. A small portion of the town extends into Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 9,459 at the 2010 census ...

and attended

Weddington High School Weddington High School (WHS) is a public high school located east of Weddington, North Carolina (with a Matthews mailing address) as part of Union County Public Schools. As of August 2020, the school has been operating under the leadership of prin ...

. He set state records for field goals in a season (22) and total field goals (51) and consecutive extra points made (104).

College career

Duncan was named Iowa's kicker going into his freshman year, making nine field goals on 11 attempts and converting 38 of 39 extra point attempts. Duncan lost the starting kicker job going into the next season to Miguel Recinos and

redshirted Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the ...

his sophomore season and also did not see any action the following year. He was named the Hawkeyes starting kicker again going into his redshirt junior year. Duncan was named first team All-

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

and the Conference Kicker of the Year after making a Big Ten record 29 of 34 field goal attempts. Duncan was also named a consensus first team All-American and was a finalist for the

Lou Groza Award The Lou Groza Award is presented annually to the top college football placekicker in the United States by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. The award is named after former Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns player Lou Groza. It has be ...

. Duncan was named to the Big Ten Network's All-Decade team for the 2010s.

References

External links

Iowa Hawkeyes bio
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