Will Bettridge

HONORS
2023 – Named to the ACC All-Academic Team. 2022 – Named the team’s Special Teams Rookie of the Year at the program’s annual awards banquet … Academic All-ACC … ACC Academic Honor Roll

AT VIRGINIA
2023 – Went 2-3 in field goal attempts converting from 30 and 40 yards against Tennessee, improves 4-5 from 40 or more yards in his career… 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 the 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), the first UVA kicker with four field goals in a game since Ian Frye 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.