Chad Hedlund

Height:
6-null
Weight:
180
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Argyle, TX
High School:
Argyle

2013 (Sophomore)
Played in 12 games, handling all placekicking duties for the team ... Converted 8-of-12 field goal attempts and was a perfect 26-for-26 on PATs ... Drilled a career-long 51-yard field goal vs. Maryland (Oct. 19), Wake Forest[apos]s longest field goal since 2007 ... Added a 38-yarder vs. Maryland ... Led the team with 50 points on the year ... Had 46 kickoffs, finishing with nine touchbacks ... Made two tackles on the kickoff unit ... Connected on both of his field goal attempts vs. ULM (Sept. 14) from 28 and 38 yards.

2012 (Redshirt Freshman)
Played in six games on the year after making his collegiate debut with a PAT kick during the Maryland game (Oct. 6) ... Converted all three of his field goal attempts on the year, all of which came at Virginia (Oct. 20) ... Converted a season-long 44-yard field goal attempt against the Cavaliers ... Converted 10-of-11 PATs on the season ... Converted all four of his PATs vs. Boston College (Nov. 3) ... Converted all three of his PATs vs. Vanderbilt (Nov. 24).

2011 (True Freshman)
Redshirted the season ... Listed on the depth chart as the team[apos]s backup placekicker throughout the season.

High School
A 2011 graduate of Argyle (TX) High School ... Scored 328 points in high school ... Made 36 field goals with a career-long of 53 yards ... Converted 170 PAT attempts ... In 2010, helped Argyle to a program-best third-round finish in the Texas 3-A playoffs ... Named to the 2009 and 2010 All-Texas First Team by the Texas Sportswriters Associates AP Poll ... Received All-Dallas/Fort Worth First Team honors in 2009 and 2010 ... First-team all-district kicker in 2008, 2009 and 2010 ... Also named a first-team all-district punter in 2010 ... Ranked as the 11th-best kicker in the country by Scout.com ... Rivals.com ranked him as the 14th-best kicker in the nation ... Was also a four-year member of the varsity soccer team at Argyle High School ... As a freshman, was called up to the United States Under-14 National Soccer Team.

Personal
Majoring in economics ... Son of John and Julie Hedlund ... Father, John, is the head women[apos]s soccer coach at the University of North Texas ... Born Feb. 7, 1992 ... Name is pronounced 'HED-luhnd'.