University of Nevada Las Vegas

UNLV: A versatile booter who heads into his senior year as the team’s starting kicker on field goals and extra points ... Has also punted and kicked off ... An honors candidate who turned in a record-setting season after transferring to UNLV and will threaten multiple UNLV career marks this fall … Has made a remarkable 100 of his 106 combined kick attempts (FGs and XPs) … Has made all 70 of his PATs and his field-goal percentage of .833 as a Rebel top the career list … Heads into his final season having never missed a field goal 39 yards or shorter (23-23) … Ranks 10th on UNLV’s career punting average list with 40.51 yards per attempt ... Earned a spot on the UNLV Dean’s Honors List in Spring 2017 … One of a school-record 26 Rebels named 2017 Academic All-Mountain West … Last name is pronounced “pan-TELLS.”

2017: Started nine games and missed three after being injured at Ohio State … Ranked first in the Mountain West and fourth nationally with 1.89 field goals per game … Ranked second in the league and 21st in the country with 8.8 points per game … His 17 made field goals tied for third in UNLV single-season history … Also made all 28 extra-point attempts … Set a school record with 16 total points in the season-opener vs. Howard by making four of six field-goal attempts and all four PATs … Made three FGs In four games and his final attempt of the season went for a career-long 53 yarder at UNR … Also punted 22 times for 900 yards for an average of 40.9 … Booted six attempts 50 yards or longer, including a career-long 69-yarder in Week One.

2016: Earned his first letter as a Rebel by appearing in all 12 games as the team’s starting PK and punter … Led squad in scoring with 81 points … Broke school record for highest field-goal percentage in a season by nailing 13 of 14 attempts for a 92.9-percent clip, which tied for fourth in the nation and bested Jim Cook’s Rebel record of 88.2 set in 1987 … Also posted the sixth perfect extra-point campaign in UNLV history and his 42 PATs were the most by any Rebel without missing one in a season (previous high was 37 by Kyle Watson in both 2008 and 2009) … After not even attempting a field goal in the first three games, he started his career by making his first six attempts before missing a 41-yard attempt at against Colorado State … He then made the final seven of the season, including a career-long 47-yarder vs. Nevada, Reno in the season finale on Nov. 26 … His 28-yard field goal with just over a minute left proved to be the game winner at Hawai’i on Oct. 15 … Twice made a career-high three attempts in one game (Sept. 24 vs. Idaho and Nov. 12 vs. Wyoming) … Posted a career-high 13 points in wild win over Wyoming … Also shined as UNLV’s punter, ranking 49th in the nation with an average of 41.7 yards per attempt … Booted eight punts 50 yards or longer, including a season-long best 66 yards in the win over the Cowboys … Averaged 40 yards or better in eight of the 12 games, including a season-best 48.0 on three boots in victory at Hawai’i … Also did most of the kicking off for the team.

JUNIOR COLLEGE: Started at both kicker and punter in 2015 for Georgia Military College located in Milledgeville, GA … Finished with a punting average of 39.3 with a long of 69 … Dropped 13 attempts inside opponents’ 20-yard line … Also made half of his 12 field-goal attempts (long of 43) and 44 of 47 extra-point attempts for the Bulldogs under coach Bert Williams. 

GEORGIA STATE: Joined the FBS program in 2014 out of high school and took a redshirt season with the Panthers ... Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the fall 2014 semester.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2014 graduate of Peachtree Ridge HS … Punter and PK for the Class 6A Lions under coach Mark Fleetwood ... Named second team all-county punter by the Gwinnett Daily Post ... Made 10 of 14 field goals as a senior ... Booted a school-record 53-yard field goal vs. Walton in the Corky Kell Classic at the Georgia Dome ... Boasted 40-yard average on punts.

PERSONAL: Evan Alexander Pantels is the son of Maris and Rita Pantels … Majoring in marketing … Dad, Maris, played baseball at San Jose State … Brother, Landon, played baseball growing up.