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Table of Contents 2014 Football Preview ................................2-3 2013 Game-by-Game ............................24-28 2014 Football Fast Facts ...............................3 2013 All-WIAC Teams ...................................29 Head Coach Clayt Birmingham .....................4 UW-Stout Year-by-Year Results ..............30-31 Coaching Staff .............................................4-6 Blue Devil Record Book ...............................32 2014 Blue Devil Preseason Rosters ..........7-8 All-Time Statistical Leaders .........................33 2014 Blue Devil Returners’ Profiles .......9-16 Stout All-Time, All-Conference Picks ...........34 2013 UW-Stout Final Statistics .............17-18 This is the WIAC, NCAA & UW-Stout ......35-36 2014 Opponent Information .................19-22 Schedules .....................................Back Covers Stout vs. 2014 Opponents thru the Years ..........23 2014 UW-Stout Football Schedule Date Opponent Site Time Sat, Sep. 6 at Dakota Wesleyan Mitchell, SD 1 p.m. Sat, Sep. 13 Loras College Menomonie, WI 2 p.m. Dorm Days Sat, Sep. 20 at Wartburg College Waverly, IA 7 p.m. Sat, Oct. 4 at UW-Oshkosh* Oshkosh, WI 2 p.m. Sat, Oct. 11 UW-Whitewater* Menomonie, WI 2 p.m. Homecoming Sat, Oct. 18 at UW-La Crosse* La Crosse, WI 1 p.m. Sat, Oct. 25 UW-Platteville* Menomonie, WI 2 p.m. Military Appreciation / Hall of Fame Game Sat, Nov. 1 at UW-Eau Claire* Eau Claire, WI 1 p.m. Sat, Nov. 8 UW-River Falls* Menomonie, WI 1 p.m. Senior Day Sat, Nov. 15 at UW-Stevens Point* Stevens Point, WI 1 p.m. *indicates WIAC contest Media Information Welcome to UW-Stout. We appreciate the attention you give to our Blue Devils. To Contact Coach Birmingham In planning your coverage of Blue Devil Football for the 2014 season, please The best time of day to contact Coach Clayt Birmingham by telephone is in review the following items. the afternoon between noon and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday at 715-232- 2203. You may also arrange contact through the Sports Information office, Working credentials 715-232-2275. Working space in the Press Box at the Don & Nona Williams Stadium is limited to working press members only. The working area is located in the Radio center section of the press box, the same area as the scoreboard operator. The official radio station of Blue Devil athletics is WMEQ 880-AM radio. We ask that you contact the Sports Information Office (715-232-2275) in Visiting radio stations planning to broadcast from Williams Stadium, and not advance to secure space. Every attempt will be made to accomodate all included on the WIAC Radio Coupler, should contact the Sports Information reasonable requests. Working press will be able to work the front table. office ASAP, but not less than 10 days before the scheduled game. If a sta- Overflow and additional work space is available. Press credentials can be tion is on the WIAC Radio Coupler, a booth and phone line in the press box picked up one hour before game time at the Will Call Window. Please, no will be provided. spouses or family members are allowed in the working area of the press box or on the sidelines. Complimentary Game Day programs can be picked up Internet Broadcasts from Sports Information located in the press box, or at the Sports Informa- WMEQ 880-AM radio webcasts all of the Blue Devil football games. Those tion office, 218 Sports & Fitness Center. games can be accessed at: www.wmeq.com In cooperation with WMEQ, video webcasting of the majority of Blue Devils home football games will be available. Photographers To access the video schedule, go to: http://athletics.uwstout.edu/webcasts. Credentials for sideline photographers will be issued only to those con- Live Stats are also available for all home games. sidered legitimate workers – those working for either a newspaper, television station, a Sports Information Office or other legitimate media. Credentials FAX Service can be picked up one hour before game time at the Will Call window. No To arrange for information by FAX either before or after games, contact the tripods are allowed on the sidelines, but monopods are allowed. Please, no Sports Information office, 715-232-2275. spouses or family members allowed on the sidelines. Social Media Services Telephone & Internet Connections Blue Devil information is also available by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Telephones may be utilized in the Press Box before, during and after the Go to the Blue Devil website or use the addresses below: game. Wireless access is easily obtained through the UW-Stout Guest Registra- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stoutbluedevils tion process. Special arrangements will need to be made to access the hardwire Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/stoutbluedevils internet connections through an on-campus secure password. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/uwstoutsports Parking Primary Blue Devil Media Outlets The Dunn County News WMEQ/WBIZ Parking is available to media in the lot north of the stadium. Brett Hart, Sports Editor Jimmie Kaska, Sports Director 710 Main Street 619 Cameron Street Media Services Menomonie, WI 54751 Eau Claire, WI 54702 715-235-3411 715-835-9429/715-552-5109 Quarterly play-by-play, halftime and final stats, final individual offensive and defensive stats and a scoring summary will be provided approximately 30-45 Leader-Telegram WAXX minutes after the completion of the game. They can be picked up in the Sports Joe Ziemer, Sports Editor Sports Director 701 S. Farwell 944 Harlem St. Information office, 218 Sports & Fitness Center. Halftime statistics will be avail- Eau Claire, WI 54702 Altoona, WI 54720 able about midway through halftime in the Max Sparger Press Box. Post-game 715-833-9212 715-833-2909 interviews may be conducted on the field after coaches have had the opportunity to talk to their teams (allow approximately 10 minutes). Interviews can also be The Stoutonia Wisconsin State Journal Colin Marklowitz, Sports Editor Sports Editor conducted outside of the locker rooms in the lower level of the Sports & Fitness UW-Stout Memorial Student Center 1901 Fish Hatchery Rd. Center. There is no formal postgame interview area. Menomonie, WI 54751 Madison, WI 53713 The Sports Information office will release a weekly news release concerning 715-232-2272 800-686-1339 each of the fall, winter and spring seasons. It will contain notes on the current WEAU TV-13 St. Paul Pioneer-Press season, as well as upcoming game information and updated statistical data. Bob Gallaher, Sports Director Sports Editor The weekly release will be available by subscription through the UW-Stout 1907 S. Hastings 345 Cedar Ave. athletic website. The release is normally available by late Monday afternoon. Eau Claire, WI 54702 St. Paul, MN 55101 715-832-3254 651-228-5516 To subscribe to the weekly release service, which is sent out via e-mail. Go to the Blue Devils website and click on “Subscribe to our E-Letter” towards the WQOW TV-18 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel bottom of the page and follow the instructions. Game stories and stats will be Bob Bradovich, Sports Director Sports Editor 5545 Hwy 93 PO Box 371 posted approximately one hour after home games and within three hours of Eau Claire, WI 54701 Milwaukee, WI 53201 away events. Player information and photos are also available on the Blue Devil 715-835-1881 414-224-2173 web page at: athletics.uwstout.edu Credits The University of Wisconsin-Stout Football Preseason Media Guide is a production of the UW-Stout Player Interviews During the Week Sports Information office. Editing, typesetting, design and layout was done by the Sports Information staff. The material in this guide is current as of August 17, 2014. Any corrections, additions or dele- All requests for player interviews during the week should be made one day tions may be directed to the UW-Stout Sports Information office, 218 Sports & Fitness Center. in advance and through the Sports Information office. Players will return calls to members of the media or a time will be arranged for media to call. Player home phone or cell phone numbers will be released only with prior approval of head coach Clayt Birmingham. www.uwstout.edu/athletics PB Blue Devil Football • 2007 2014 UW-Stout Football Preview Putting together a football team can be like The Blue Devils tend to work tight ends into David Koronkiewicz (Jr, Peshtigo) started putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Some pieces the fullback alignments. Reggie Kujak (Jr, all 10 games at center. Kane’ala Atchinson- fit together easily, others are a little harder to Blair), Ben Hall (Jr, North Palm Beach, Fla), Keolanui (So, Lodi) started seven games at locate. Aaron Koerner (So, Colby) and Devon Hart- guard. Seth Tompkins (Sr, Lake Elmo, Minn) man (So, Milton) will give the Blue Devils size started the final eight games at right tackle. UW-Stout’s Clayt Birmingham begins his fifth at the position. All weigh in around 220-lbs, Kevin Russell (Sr, Plymouth, Minn) started year of assembling this yearly puzzle. He knows and Kujak is 6-foot, 7-inches, while Hall and four games at guard. what he has, but he and his staff will be digging Koerner are 6-3. into the box to find some other pieces. Matt McKone (Jr, Superior), Logan Stoa (So, Hall pulled in three passes last year, while Hawley, Minn) and Corey Parris (So, West The offensive backfield appears to be in pretty Reggie Kujak hauled in nine passes, including Bend) are front runners for the tackle spots. good shape with several returners, including a diving TD snag in the corner of the end zone quarterback Hank Kujak (Sr, Blair), who han- on a day he had two TD receptions in a win over “We will only be as good as our offensive line,” dled the majority of snaps last season, earning UW-Eau Claire.