The Fred Mitchell Outstanding Place-Kicker Award has released it's watchlist of the top 38 kickers across divisions which includes Layne Ryals (Louisburg, KS/Louisburg) as one of 7 kickers from Division II.

Ryals is 11-14 this season and connected on his first 11 field goals in a row, including going 3-for-3 against Southwest Baptist. He is second in the Great Lakes Valley Conference for field goal accuracy and 20th in all of Division II.

The namesake for the award, Fred Mitchell, was a longtime (1974-2015) award-winning sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the author of 12 sports books. Mitchell set the NCAA record for career kick-scoring at Wittenberg University in 1968 among "College Division" schools that are now classified as FCS, Division II and Division III.

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