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The University of Mississippi Athletics
2022 Football Roster
Sep 13 (Sat)
6:00 or 6:45 PM
Jonathan Cruz
- Position:
- K
- Letters Earned at Ole Miss:
- 1
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-9 / 175
- Hometown:
- Cartersville, Ga.
- High School:
- Cartersville
- Prev. College:
- Charlotte
- Major:
- Psychology
| CAREER HIGHLIGHTS |
| • 2022 All-SEC Third Team (Phil Steele) |
| ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS |
| • C-USA Honor Roll (2018 - Charlotte) • Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Fall 2022, Spring 2021 - Charlotte) |
2022 (SENIOR): Earned third team All-SEC honors from Phil Steele ... Served as the Rebels primary field goal and kickoff specialist in all 13 games after transferring in from Charlotte ... Made 15 of his 17 field goal attempts, including a long of 53 yards ... Lead the SEC with a .882 field goal percentage ... Finished second on the team with 93 points scored, which ranks 10th in program history for a single season ... Was 7-for-8 in attempts longer than 40 yards ... His 48 PATs ranked fifth in school history ... vs. Troy (9/3/22): Converted on all four of his PAT attempts on the day … Also handled kickoff duties ... vs. Central Arkansas (9/10/22): Connected on his lone field goal attempt from 41 yards out, while also going 6-of-6 on his extra point tries … at Georgia Tech (9/17/22): Finished a perfect 6-of-6 on extra points for the Rebels … vs. Tulsa (9/24/22): Finished a perfect 5-for-5 on extra points against the Golden Hurricane … Kicked off all six times for the Rebels ... vs. Kentucky (10/1/22): Finished a perfect 2-for-2 on extra points and field goals, including kicking a 53-yard field goal tying him for the fifth-longest field goal in team history ... at Vanderbilt (10/8/22): Accounted for 10 points on the day, going a perfect 7-for-7 on extra points along with hitting his lone field goal attempt from 35 yards out … vs. Auburn (10/15/22): Accounted for 12 points on the day for the Rebels, connecting on 23 and 42-yard field goals while also going a perfect 6-for-6 on extra points … Recorded eight total kickoffs, seven of which went for touchbacks ... at LSU (10/22/22): Finished a perfect 2-for-2 for field goals and for extra points on the day, converting on 48 and 32-yard field goal tries ... at Texas A&M (10/29/22): Connected on his lone field goal attempt from 46 yards out, while also going 4-for-4 on extra points ... vs. Alabama (11/12/22): Connected on all of his kick attempts versus the Crimson Tide, converting on a 22-yard field goal along with going 3-for-3 on extra points ... at Arkansas (11/19/22): Finished his night going 2-for-3 on field goal attempts for the Rebels, connecting on tries from 45 and 32 yards out … Also hit his lone PAT attempt of the night ... vs. Mississippi State (11/24/22): Finished three-for-three on field goals, converting from 49, 33 and 32 yards out … Also made his lone extra point attempt of the game ... vs. Texas Tech (12/28/22): Did not attempt any field goals ... Tallied five kickoffs with one touchback.
CHARLOTTE: Saw action in 43 career games as Charlotte’s primary place kicker ... School-record holder in career FG% (.719; 41-57) ... School-record with five FGM of 50+ yards (5-6, .833) ... Shares school-record for longest FGM (Game-winning 56-yarder at FAU, 2018; 56-yarder at WKU, 2021) ... 56-yarder at WKU was longest in C-USA in 2021 and tied for 4th-longest in NCAA ... GW 56-yarder at FAU in 2018 was longest in C-USA and second longest in FBS ... Owns single-season (2018) school records for 40+ FGM (8) and 50+ FGM (3) ... 16-of-25 (.640) all-time from 40 or more ... Tied a school record with 10 consecutive made field goals, spanning 2018, 2019 seasons ... Set school record with 61 straight made PATs (spanning 2019-2021 seasons) ... 2019 Lou Groza Award Watch List ... 2019 Preseason C-USA Special Teams Player of the Year ... 2019 Preseason all-C-USA ... Athlon Sports’ 2019 Preseason all-C-USA First Team selection ... 2018 Second-Team all-Conference USA ... 2018 C-USA all-Freshman Team ... named first-team all-C-USA by Pro Football Focus and second-team all-C-USA by Phil Steele.
HIGH SCHOOL: Received five stars with a FG rating of 99 from National Camp Series after representing Team Jackson at the 2016 South Region event ... Added a punt rating of 83 …. Took first-place among upperclassmen in FG category for kicking coach, Brian Jackson ... Four-time Special Teams Player of the Year ... Two-time all-state kicker ... First-team all-state punter ... Four-year varsity starter .... Enjoyed a 53-3 record in his career, including a school-record 41-game winning streak ... Career included two state titles, three final four appearances and 14 playoff wins ... Hurricanes went 11-1 and won AAAA Region 5 with a perfect 6-0 mark ... Was 72-of-72 in PAT attempts ... 6-of-8 in FGA with a school-record long of 55 yards ... Scored 90 points as a senior and 401 in his career ... Had 81 kickoffs for touchbacks ... perfect 4-4 in PAT’s with a 47-yd FG in 38-5 win over Westlake ... Reached second round of state AAAA Playoffs for coach Joey King ... Kicked 55-yard FG in state playoffs .... Added a 45.3 punting avg ... Back-to-back 15-0 AAAA State Champion seasons in 2015 and 2016 ... Four-time region champions ... Also lettered in soccer ... Coached by Joey King.
PERSONAL: Son of Juana Cruz ... Full name is Jonathan Lorenzo Cruz ... Born April. 8, 2000 ... 2018 C-USA Honor Roll while at Charlotte ... Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in fall 2022 and spring 2021 (Charlotte) ... Graduated from Charlotte with an undergraduate degree in psychology.
