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Colton Boomer
[edit]Colton George Boomer (born August 27, 2003) is a disciple of Christ [1] and an American amateur football player. Boomer began his collegiate football career at The University of Central Florida. He left[2] the UCF football team in October 2024 and will be in the 2024 Fall Transfer Portal.
During the 2023 college football season he made the game winning [3] 40-yard field goal versus Boise State as time expired. That same game he hit a 33, 50 and school record 55-yard field goal.[4] Colton Boomer[5] plans to continue his collegiate kicking career after completing his degree from the University of Central Florida in Real Estate [6] (BSBA).
High School Years
[edit]Boomer attended Lake Mary High School in Lake Mary, Florida. He was a 3-year starting Varsity Kicker and 2-year Varsity Punter. During his high school football career with the Rams, he converted 103 of 108 extra point attempts and 16 field goals[7], including a long of 44 yards. Boomer converted more than 70% of his kickoffs for touchbacks. He wore the number 35 jersey. During his Senior Season he was named First-Team All District, First-Team All-Conference and Second-Team All-State[8]. Boomer graduated from Lake Mary High School in 2022. Boomer also played soccer[9] for The Rams on an LMHS team who went to the Florida State Final Playoffs in 2021.
College Career
[edit]Boomer graduated Lake Mary High School in December 2021 allowing him to early enroll (January 2022). He was rated a 5-Star Kicking and Punting prospect by Kornblue Kicking. He played college football for UCF from 2022 to 2024 [10] and wore jersey number 35.
Boomer historical performance at UCF:
10th All-time points scored[11]
Tied for longest FG in UCF History (55)[12]
Tied for most 50+ FG's (2) in a single game (O'Brien)
6th All-time in FG accuracy 71.4%[11]
Highest single-season FG accuracy 93.3%[13]
Most FG's in a single-game (4) 2X (Tied with Prater, Moffitt, O'Brien)[14]
5th All-time in PAT's made [11]
Most PAT's All-time in a single game (10) - Temple 2022 (Tied with Wright)[15]
1st UCF Athlete to score points in the Big XII - 2023[16]
1st UCF Athlete to earn Player Of The Week Honors in the Big XII - 2023 Wk 2[17]
2022
[edit]12 Games played in ’22 (all but S.C. St., Louisville); Boomer became the starting placekicker [18]as of game 3 of the 2022 season as a true freshman.
He led the AAC and was eighth in the nation in FG% at 93.3%
He was fifth in the AAC at 1.17 FG's per game
Boomer tied all-time UCF single-game record with 4 FG's vs. Georgia Tech (21, 31, 37, 43) for 13th time a UCF kicker has hit 4 in a game[19]
He kicked 10 PAT's vs. Temple to tie the single-game record
His only miss in 2022 was from 64 yards at Memphis on play where the ball was not supposed to be snapped[20]
He finished 42 of 43 on PAT's in ’22[10]
All-AAC 3rd Team by Pro Football Focus[21]
All-AAC 3rd Team by Phil Steele[22]
Honorable Mention All-Freshman Team by College Football News[23]
2023
[edit]Boomer played in all 13 games for the Knights in ’23
Honorable Mention placekicker pick on All-Big 12 team chosen by league coaches[24]
He was 48 of 50 on PATs in ’23 and 90 of 93 in career
He hit 84 straight PAT's until block[25] at Texas Tech (third-longest streak at UCF) dating back to only previous miss on second attempt vs FAU in ’22
Boomer tied the UCF record for the second time with (4) FG's vs Boise St including from 50 and 55 and then from 40 as time expired to win [26] game[4]
Named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week for play vs Boise St[17]
He was recognized by Palm Beach County Sports Commission and Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award presented by Orange Bowl as 1 of 3 kickers named “Stars of the Week” for play vs. Boise St[27]
Became only the second UCF kicker to hit (2) 50+ FGs in a game
Hit (3) FG's from 21, 48 and 46 vs Oklahoma[28]
Hit from 24 vs Texas Tech and had 24-yd run on fake FG to set up second UCF TD [29]
Second-Team kicker on Lindy’s and College Football Network ‘23 preseason All-Big 12 teams, Third-Team selection by Athlon and Phil Steele, on ‘23 watch list for Lou Groza Award[27]
2024
[edit]Boomer played the first (4) games of the 2024 season before making the decision to undergo surgery[30] to repair ligament damage suffered from a 2023 Spring Training Drill.
He appeared in the 2024 season games versus:
New Hampshire University, Sam Houston State, TCU and Colorado. Boomer made a 50-yard FG [31] versus SHSU and hit the game-winning PAT vs TCU [32]
Statistics
[edit]| 2022 Splits UCF Knights | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | FG | FG% | Long | PAT's | Points Scored | |||||
| 0-0 | 7-7 | 4-4 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 14-15 | 93.3% | 43 | 41-42 | 83 | |||||
| 2023 Splits UCF Knights | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | FG | FG% | Long | PAT's | Points Scored | |||||
| 0-0 | 5-6 | 2-5 | 4-6 | 2-4 | 12-19 | 63.2% | 55 | 46-48 | 82 | |||||
| 2024 Splits UCF Knights | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | FG | FG% | Long | PAT's | Points Scored | |||||
| 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 3-6 | 50.0% | 50 | 19-20 | 28 | |||||
| UCF Knights - Career [33] | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | FG | FG% | Long | PAT's | Points Scored | |||||
| 0-0 | 13-15 | 6-9 | 8-11 | 3-7 | 30-42 | 71.4 | 55 | 109-113 | 199 [34] | |||||
| 1 Block | 1 Block | 1 Block | 2 Blocks | |||||||||||
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- ^ "Fan favorite kicker Colton Boomer announces departure from UCF". 17 October 2024.
- ^ "Colton Boomer's 40-yard field goal seals UCF's walk-off win against Boise State".
- ^ a b "Instagram". www.instagram.com.
- ^ https://coltonboomer.com/
- ^ "Real Estate (BSBA)".
- ^ "Colton Boomer's High School Football Stats". www.maxpreps.com.
- ^ Fisher, Jeff (February 20, 2022). "2021 Florida 8A All-State high school football team from FloridaHSFootball.comT".
- ^ "Colton Boomer's High School Bio". www.maxpreps.com.
- ^ a b "Colton Boomer - 2023 Football". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ a b c "UCF Knights Scoring Stats". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.
- ^ "Boomer's 55-yarder field goal carries UCF past Boise St". mynews13.com.
- ^ "Colton Boomer Career Stats - NCAAF". ESPN.
- ^ "UCF Football Runs Past Georgia Tech, 27-10". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ "UCF Football Soars Past Temple in Annual Space Game, 70-13". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ "Football vs UCF on 09/23/2023 - Box Score". Kansas State University Athletics.
- ^ a b "UCF, OU and UT Earn Big 12 Football Week 2 Awards". big12sports.com. September 11, 2023.
- ^ https://www.si.com/college/ucf/university-of-central-florida-football/ucf-knights-unleash-colton-boomer
- ^ "Colton Boomer Post Game - Georgia Tech". September 24, 2022 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Colton Boomer - 2023 Football". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ Treash, Anthony (December 2, 2022). "2022 PFF College All-AAC Team: Houston QB Clayton Tune, Cincinnati LB Ivan Pace Jr. and more". PFF.
- ^ https://philsteele.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022-PostSeason-All-Conf-AAC-Reterners.xlsx.pdf
- ^ "College Football News Freshman All-America Team 2022". Yahoo Sports. December 17, 2022.
- ^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/big12sports.com/documents/2023/11/28/2023_All_Big_12_Release.pdf
- ^ "UCF Falls in Heartbreaker at Texas Tech, 24-23". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ https://www.mysanfordherald.com/article/boomer-%E2%80%99s-walk-winner-ucf-football
- ^ a b "Colton Boomer".
- ^ "UCF Edged in Hard-Fought Battle at No. 6 Oklahoma, 31-29". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com.
- ^ "InternalBrace™ Technique for Brostrom Repair". Arthrex.
- ^ "UCF Football Earns 45-14 Win Against Sam Houston". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ "Jefferson Named to Davey O'Brien Great 8 List, Manning Award Star of the Week". UCF Athletics - Official Athletics Website.
- ^ https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/5085396/colton-boomer
- ^ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/central-florida/scoring.html