Garrison Rippa

Position:
Kicker
Height:
5-10
Weight:
205
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Locust Grove, Ga.
High School:
Luella HS

2024 CONFERENCE USA ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
2025 First Team All-Conference USA

2025: Served as team's kicker in all 14 games...Converted 21 of 28 field goal attempts and all 40 PATs...Kicked off 67 times for an average of 61.2 yards per with 32 touchbacks...Connected on four field goals of 50+ including two from 52 which matched the school record...First from 52 was the game winner as time expired at Sam Houston (10/9)...10/13 CUSA Special Teams Player of the Week...9/8 CUSA Special Teams Player of the Week after connecting on a pair of field goals including a 50-yarder in home opening win over Liberty (9/6)...Hit 28-yard field goal as time expired to give Jax State a 37-34 win over Western Kentucky (11/29) and send the Gamecocks back to the Air National Guard Conference USA Championship...Was good on two other 27-yard field goals in that game...Made all three field goal attempts including a 45-yarder with 53 seconds left for a 30-27 win at UTEP (11/8).

2024: Served as the team's place kicker in all 14 games...Made 62 of 64 extra points and was successful on 14 of 19 field goals...His 103 points were second-most on the team...Long field goal of 51 which came with 34 seconds to go in regulation at Eastern Michigan (9/14) to tie the game...Scored 14 points in that game...Kicked off 91 times for an average of 59.8 yards per...Forced 29 touchbacks with only one kick out of bounds.

2023: Kicked off five times during the Louisiana Tech game, twice for touchbacks … drilled his season-long and second-career field goal in the final seconds of the New Orleans Bowl from 27 yards out to clinch the victory … also knocked in four point-after-attempts.

HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped for head coach Craig Coleman at Luella High School…was 7-of-9 on field goals with a long of 38 yards as a senior…made 24 of his 27 extra point attempts and added 28 touchbacks in 2021…had 27 touchbacks on kickoffs as a junior…helped the Lions to an eight-win season and a berth in the GHSA Class 4A Sweet 16…also played varsity soccer at Luella.