On Monday night in Los Angeles, TCU plays Georgia in the College Football Playoff national title game. Both programs have starting punters from Australia, a country that has become a breeding ground for punters.
that August after appearing in two preseason games and punting three times. He later had a workout with the Cincinnati Bengals and attended a minicamp with the Chicago Bears, but he never kicked in a regular season NFL game.
Still, Chapman credits two men in particular for helping him navigate the college football landscape early on and introduce him to college coaches: John Bonamego, a longtime coach who was the Packers’ special teams coordinator when Chapman played in Green Bay, and John Dorsey, a longtime NFL executive who knew Chapman through their time spent together with the Packers.
Over time, college coaches became more confident that Prokick was a breeding ground for punters. In 2013, Prokick alum Tom Hornsey of Memphisthe first Australian to win the Ray Guy Award for the nation’s top punter. Since then, other Prokick alums have won the same award: Utah’s Tom Hackett in 2014 and 2015, Utah’s Mitch Wishnowsky in 2016, Texas’ Michael Dickson in 2017, Kentucky’s Max Duffy in 2019 and Rutgers’ Adam Korsak in 2022.
Players in the Prokick program train three days per week on punting as well as four to five times per week in the gym with cardio and strength and conditioning. The workouts often begin at 5:30 or 6:30 in the morning. They pay a fee for working with Prokick’s coaches and trainers and spend 9 to 18 months before heading to the U.S. to play in college.
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