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2021 Football Roster

19 Scott Lees

  • Position Place-Kicker
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 193
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Sammamish, Wash.
  • Highschool Eastside Catholic HS

Biography

As a senior (2021)

• Served as the team’s place-kicker in all 10 contests, connecting on 8-of-11 field goals and hitting all 21 PAT kicks.
• Scored his first collegiate points when he went 3-of-3 on extra-point kicks against No. 22 VMI.
• Made a 32-yard field goal and hit both PAT attempts at Yale.
• Was 1-of-1 on field goals, hitting from 27 yards out, and booted through a PAT kick at Bucknell.
• Nailed a career-long 33-yard field goal and hit a PAT kick at Harvard.
• Made all four extra-point kicks in the win over Colgate.
• Hit on 5-of-5 PAT kicks and kicked off four times with three touchbacks.
• Nailed a 360yard field goal on his only try and added a successful PAT kick and touchbacks on all three of his kickoffs that weren't on-sides attempts. 
• Had a pair of touchbacks in three attempts in the win at Penn, punting for the first time in his career for 43 yards prior to the Quakers' final possession.
• Averaged 41.0 yards on two punts, made his lone PAT kick and put one of two kickoffs through the end zone for a touchback at No. 22 Dartmouth.
• Named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week after connecting on all four field goals, a single-game school record, and made both PAT kicks against Columbia.
• At the kickoff spot against the Lions, he put four of his five true kickoffs (discounting one off-sides kick) through the end zone to neutralize Columbia's special teams star Mike Roussos, making the tackle on the only kickoff that was returned. He also punted three times for a 34.3 yard average.

As a junior (2020)

• Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

As a sophomore (2019)

• Made the travel roster as a backup kicker at Harvard.
• Saw his first collegiate action as a kickoff specialist against Colgate, averaging 61.0 yards on four attempts with one touchback.
 

As a freshman (2018)

• Did not see varsity action.
 

Prior to Cornell

• Lees was twice named Special Teams MVP at Eastside Catholic HS and helped the team to a state title as a sophomore.
• He was ranked as the top kicker in the state by Chris Sailer Kicking, ranking in the top 15 nationally as both a punter and kicker as a five-star prospect.
• Lees posted 45 touchbacks on 52 kickoffs in his final season.
• He also lettered three times in soccer, serving as captain for two seasons.
 

Personal

• Scott Andrew Lees is the son of Andrew ad Linnet Lees and has an older sister.
• He is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the SC Johnson College of Business.


Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 53

    2018-19Freshman

    Place-Kicker/Punter
    6'0" 196 lbs
    53
  • 53

    2019-20Sophomore

    Place-Kicker/Punter
    6'0" 202 lbs
    53
  • 53

    2020-21Junior

    Place-Kicker/Punter
    6'0" 202 lbs
    53
  • 19

    2021-22Senior

    Place-Kicker
    6'0" 193 lbs
    19