Will Bettridge

HONORS
2024 – Allstate Wuerffel Trophy Watch List … Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. 2023 – All-ACC Academic Team … ACC Honor Roll. 2022 – Special Teams Rookie of the Year at the program’s annual awards banquet … All-ACC Academic Team … ACC Academic Honor Roll.

AT VIRGINIA
2024 – Cracked UVA’s top-15 career points list with one made field goal and three successful PATs in 24-19 win at No. 23 Pittsburgh (11/9) … finished 3-for-3 on field goal attempts and 4-for-4 on extra point attempts in 43-24 win at Coastal Carolina (9/21) … Tied his career long on a 47-yard field goal against the Chanticleers … His fourth PAT proved to be the game-winning score in UVA’s 31-30 win at Wake Forest (9/7) … One of five returning FBS kickers to make at least 85.7 percent (min. 21 attempts) of field goals attempted in 2023 … Enters the season 8-11 for his career on attempts of at least 40 yards.  2023 – Finished the season 18-21 (85.7 pct) in field goal attempts … His 85.7 field goal percentage was good for 16th among all FBS kickers … Went 8-8 on attempts from 30-39 yards out … Connected on a season-long 46-yard attempt against Duke … Finished 31-31 on PAT attempts.  2022 – Appeared in seven games as a true freshman … Was 7-for-10 on field goals with a long of 47 against Louisville on Oct. 8 … Was 12-14 on extra point attempts … Was two field goals shy of tying UVA’s freshman record held by Wayne Morrison (1979) … Made his collegiate debut at Syracuse (9/23) by making an extra point on UVA’s first touchdown … Successful on his first collegiate field goal attempt, a 34-yard at Duke (Oct. 1) … 47-yard field goal against Louisville was s the longest field goal by a UVA kicker in 2022 and longest since Brian Delaney kicked a 48-yarder against Virginia Tech in 2019 … Connected on all four of his field goal attempts (27, 24, 41, 41) against Miami (Oct. 29) to become the first UVA kicker with four field goals in a game since Ian Frye also did it against Miami in 2015.

HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL
Played at Gulliver Prep, where he kicked for head coach and former UVA linebacker Earl Sims… ranked the No. 1 kicker in the country by Kornblue Kicking… ranked No. 3 kicker according to 247Sports … five-star kicker and ranked sixth in the nation by Kohl’s Kicking … made 31-of-43 career field goal attempts, including a career-best 54-yard attempt, and was 148-for-159 on PAT attempts according to Max Preps … also handled the punting duties at Gulliver Prep… attended Kohl’s National Scholarship Camp in 2021 … named to MaxPreps preseason All-State team … GP went 9-2 as a senior and reached the regional finals of state 4A tournament … Kicked a 51-yarder in his final season against Cardinal Newman… also played basketball and baseball at GP … enrolled in UVA’s College of Arts and Sciences.