High School Kicker Kip Smith Makes 67-Yard Field Goal
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9/09/2009 8:45 AM ET By Michael David Smith
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Kip Smith, a senior at Broomfield Legacy High School in Colorado, set a state record by making a 67-yard field goal over the weekend.
The field goal came on a fair catch free kick with 12 seconds remaining in the first half. Broomfield's coach, Wayne Voorhees, made the heads-up decision to tell his returner to fair catch a punt at Broomfield's 43-yard line, and that allowed Smith to take a free kick off a tee with no pressure from the defense. (The same rule exists in the NFL and in college, although NFL and college kickers aren't allowed to use a tee.)
So Smith trotted out and booted the ball, and he didn't just clear the cross bar -- he made it by enough that it would have been good from 70 yards, or maybe more. The previous Colorado state record for longest field goal was 64 yards. The national high school record is 68 yards by Dirk Borgognone of Reno, Nevada. in 1985.
Voorhees told MaxPreps.com that he wasn't surprised Smith made the kick because on kickoffs, "He's been kicking them out of the end zone every time. We knew he had a chance. He just stroked it -- like a golf swing. He was pretty excited. It was kind of crazy."
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Its a great kick and all but its really a stretch calling that a field goal.
No pressure from the defense and you get to run at the ball like its a kickoff?
I kicked in high school and from that distance I could easily make it through the uprights as well.
if you could have made it from that distance then where is your published story? No where to be found? b/c your probably one of those guys like Uncle Rico on napoleon dynamite, living in the past thinking you were the best, but instead here you are posting comments instead of making the big bucks in the NFL. grow up guy
lolol, you completely could not
Then why aren't you in the record books?
I totally agree with Stevo
That's really pretty easy when you consider that it's with a tee and no live rush. Hundreds of kickers can make it to the back of the end zone with a tee on kickoffs (from the 30-yard line), so why shouldn't they be able to kick it through the upright from the 43-yard line? The rare thing here is the actual use of a free kick, not that a kicker manages to kick that long.
Just to let you know a kickoff in high school is kicked from the 40 yard line and top kickers will get the ball just past the goal line. No matter how you put it this kick is very impressive.
TOTALLY agree with Stevo
Are any of you gonna believe a guy named Stevo? The only Stevo I know plays on jackass on MTV. LOL. This may be him you know.
your all idiots who cares he still wont show up on any of your fantasy teams anytime soon!!!!!!!!! lmfao!!!!!!!
...so if it is so easy to do, and hundreds of kickers could do it...why is it a state record...? ...and wait..the national record is only one yard farther..? hmmm...doesn't sound so easy to me. Good thing you're 'retired' Stevo. I'm sure I'd be reading about your 70 yarder tomorrow...and by the way..think before you post, dude.
I applaud him. Great job!
WHO CARES....THAT WAS NOTHING....HE IS A LOSER...SO IS EVERYONE THAT READS THIS....LOSERS
Great kick...no cigar kiddo...uncontested...please, I kicked off and had few FG back in 1969 at 42 yds was unbelievable, but we had some horses coming in to block that sucker and the game was on the line. sorry...asterisk at best. Great distance, no record. I used to dream of that uncontested rule. Never had chance
I'm not sure but I believe a team gets a free kick off of a fair catch made (prob a punt). They were up by 25 pts anyway. Added salt in other coach's wound!
DA BEARS did this several years ago - I think with Kevin Butler
soccer loser
Not too shabby, kid! Even though it's nothing like the time I scored 4 touchdowns for Polk High in a single game.
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-Al Bundy
People said it is easy, but since the national record in only one yard more, it can't be that easy. Yes, kicking it 70 yards is not impossible but getting it through the uprights from that distance is. I think they have to have to have 2 categories of records as free kicking and kicking with 11 men coming at you ate 2 totally different things. If I had the contested field goal record and someone beat it with a free kick I'd be a bit pissed to have, officialy at least, "lost" the record. I think this should be the case for all levels of football. You could make a similar case for hockey in the case of regular goals scored vs tiebreaker "shootout" goals, where it's you vs the goalie.
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As usual, you got it wrong. The same rule does not exist in the NCAA rule book. Stick to MMA or whatever.