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12/07/2011
Baxter Earns Special Teams National Honor
Second-year coach named FootballScoop's Special Teams Coordinator of the Year.
12/05/2011
Matt Barkley Named USC MVP
Christian Tupou wins Most Inspirational.
11/21/2011
Scholar-Athlete Profile: Kyle Negrette
USC junior punter Kyle Negrete gets down to business in this week's Scholar-Athlete Profile.
11/17/2011
Six Trojans Make 2011 Pac-12 All-Academic Football Team
Barkley, Holmes, Kennard, McAllister are second teamers.
11/13/2011
No. 18 USC Football Travels To No. 4 Oregon
It's the last road trip for Trojans in 2011.
2011: He is a walk-on punter as a junior in 2011.
2010: He joined the USC team in the fall of 2010 as a junior walk-on punter, but he redshirted.
San Diego: He spent 2 seasons (2008-09) as a punter and linebacker at the University of San Diego...As a sophomore in 2009, he earned All-Pioneer Football League first team honors at punters and was the team's Special Teams Player of the Year while averaging 42.2 yards on his 55 punts, with 16 pinning opponents within the 20-yard line...He also had 11 tackles as a reserve linebacker in 2009...As a freshman in 2008, he made All-PFL honorable mention as he averaged 41.0 yards on 27 punts,with 4 traveling 50-plus yards (with a 62-yarder), and he made 20 tackles.
High School: He prepped at Clovis West High in Fresno (Calif.), where he was All-State third team, All-Section first team, MVP of the All-City and All-League teams and MVP of his team as a 2007 senior linebacker, tight end and punter...He had 105 tackles and 8 interceptions as a senior and averaged 46.7 yards per punt...He also played baseball at Clovis West.
Personal: His father, Jeff, played linebacker at Fresno State (1983-84), while his gradfather, Jim Sweeney, was the head football coach at Montana State (1963-67), Washington State (1968-75) and Fresno State (1967-77, 1980-86),posting 200 career wins, his uncle, Kevin Sweeney, played at Fresno State (1983-86) and in the NFL, and his cousins are Cornell junior QB Beau Sweeney (he previously played at California) and Washington junior S Nate Fellner.
