Player Bio: Jake Brownell

Jake Brownell

Class:
RS Junior

Hometown:
Thorofare, N.J.

High School:
West Deptford

Last College:
Navy

Height / Weight:
5-10 / 195

Position:
P/K

Brownell in Action

Fourth-year junior ... transferred to Temple from Navy in the fall of 2005 ... scholarship player who initially joined the program via Local 215.

Honors: Member of the Temple Honors Program ... 2007 Academic All-MAC Team member ... named to the 2007 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Football Team ... named the OwlSports.com Athlete of the Week and the MAC Special Teams co-Player of the Week for the East Division (Oct. 8, 2007) ... 2006 Sporting News Honorable Mention Freshman All-American ... cited on the President's Academic Honor Roll.

2007: Played in all 12 games ... TU's scoring leader with 57 points ... made 18-of-19 PATs and 13-of-21 field goals ... kicked a career-long 41-yard field goal against Navy ... also kicked off three times for 157 yards ... nailed a 39-yard field goal with nine seconds on the clock to give Temple a 16-15 win over Northern Illinois on Homecoming ... also converted a 25-yarder, a 38-yarder, and an extra point in the victory ... made a career-high four field goals in the win over Kent State ... his five FG attempts against KSU tied the season-high in MAC play ... also had a 59-yard kickoff against the Golden Flashes ... lettered .

2006: Played in all 12 games as a redshirt freshman ... preseason second-team All-Independent choice by Phil Steele's ... ranked seventh nationally and first among freshmen in punting yardage ... punted 78 times for 3,004 yards (38.5 avg.) with a long of 58, four TBs, 12 FCs, seven 50+ and 10 inside the 20 ... made two of three FGAs, connecting from 32 and 27 yards ... kicked off 16 times for 901 yards (56.3 avg.) ... made three solo tackles ... punted eight times for 333 yards (41.6 avg.), including a season long 58 yarder, with one FC and two I20 at WMU ... named the coaching staff's special teams performer of the week at Buffalo ... lettered.

2005: Transferred to Temple in September after initially enrolling at Navy ... sat out the season under NCAA transfer guidelines.

High School: A 2005 graduate of West Deptford (N.J.) HS ... holds the South Jersey record with 184 career PATs ... accumulated 247 career kicking points, two shy of the state record ... twice set the South Jersey record for kicking points in a season, first with 74 as a junior and then with 80 as a senior ... Prep Star All-Region honoree as a senior and a first-team All-State choice by the Associated Press, Gannett, and the Newark Star-Ledger ... named his team's Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... cited on the South Jersey All-Academic Team in 2004 ... also a first-team All-South Jersey choice by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Courier-Post as a senior ... received the John Aveni Award as South Jersey Special Teams Player of the Year ... as a junior, earned second team All-State and first team All-South Jersey honors, while being cited by Street & Smith's as one of the top 50 players to watch in the nation ... four-year varsity football letterwinner and two-time team captain under head coach Clyde Folsom, earning All-Colonial Conference honors in each of his seasons ... also a three-year varsity baseball letterwinner and a two-year varsity basketball letterwinner ... All-Group II and All-Conference honoree as a senior, when he was a member of the Olympic-Colonial Carpenter Cup team and batted .448 with 46 runs scored and 40 hits as an infielder ... Averaged 13.5 points per game on the hardwood as a junior guard to earn All-Gloucester County honors ... graduated in the top 10 percent of his class, ranking 15th out of 250 students ... 2005 South Jersey Male Leadership Award winner at the Gloucester County CLAY Awards.

Personal: Born July 26, 1986 ... given name is William Henry Brownell III ... son of William and Wendy Brownell ... biology major.

BROWNELL'S PLACE KICKING STATS

Year	GP	XPM-A	FGM-A	Pct	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-99	Lg	Blk
2006	12	12-13	2-3	66.7	0-0	1-1	1-1	0-1	0-0	32	1
2007	12	18-19	13-21	61.9	0-0	8-10	4-7	1-4	0-0	41	0
Totals	24	30-32	15-24	62.5	0-0	9-11	5-8	1-5	0-0	41	1
BROWNELL'S PUNTING STATS
Year	GP	No.	Yds	Avg	Long	TB	FC	I20	Blkd
2006	12	78	3004	38.5	58	4	12	10	1
BROWNELL'S KICKOFF STATS
Year	GP	No.	Yds	Avg	TB	OB
2006	12	16	901	56.3	0	0
2007	12	5	256	51.2	0	0
Totals	24	21	1,157	55.1	0	0
Brownell's Career Highs
Field Goals	4 (Kent State, 2007)
Long		42 (at Akron, 2007)
Punts		8 (four times)
Yards		333 (at Western Michigan, 2006)
Game Avg.	43.0 (Bowling Green, 2006)
Long		58 (at Western Michigan, 2006)
Inside 20	2 (four times)
Kickoffs	3 (Navy, 2007)
Yards		157 (Navy, 2007)
Game Avg. 	59.0 (Kent State, 2007)