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2025 Football Roster

1 Kandakai Sherman Jr.

  • Position Safety
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 165
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Sterling Heights, Mich.
  • Highschool De La Salle Collegiate HS

Biography

PRONUNCIATION

2024 | FRESHMAN SEASON
Competed in four games...finishing the season with 10 tackles, recording three tackles each against Bucknell (Oct. 19), Brown (Oct. 26) and Princeton (Nov. 2).

PRIOR TO CORNELL
Finalist of the Michigan Defensive Player Of The Year award (2023-24) ... All-State Dream Team honorable mention (2023-24) ... All-County honoree (2023-24) ... named All-Region and All-Catholic (2023-24) as a safety ... All-State First Team (2023-24) ... All-League (2022-23) ... selected team captain for 2023-24 season ... two-time state champion (2022, 23) ... two-time state runner-up (2021, 24) ... also played basketball and ran track and field.

PERSONAL
Kandakai Sherman Jr. is the son of Kandakai and Sonnie Sherman, and has one sister and one brother ... he is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 29

    2024-25Freshman

    Safety
    6'1" 165 lbs
    29
  • 1

    2025-26Sophomore

    Safety
    6'1" 165 lbs
    1