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Griffin Oakes

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Position
  
Placekicker

Major
  
Exercise Science

Height
  
1.78 m

Class
  
Junior

High school
  
Greenwood (IN)

Weight
  
93 kg

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Bowl games
  
2015 Pinstripe Bowl 2016 Foster Farms Bowl

Date of birth
  
(1995-02-24) February 24, 1995 (age 22)

Current team
  
Indiana Hoosiers football (#92 / Placekicker)

College
  
Indiana University Bloomington (2013–)

Date joined
  
2013 (Indiana Hoosiers football)

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Griffin Oakes (born February 24, 1995) is an American football placekicker for the Indiana Hoosiers.

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High School

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Oakes was a one-year letterman in soccer and a three-year letterman for the Greenwood High School football team. Oakes received Indiana Football Coaches Association All-State accolades as a junior and Indiana honorable mention in the Associated Press Class 4A All-State in his junior and senior year.

College career

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Oakes was a walk-on during the 2013 preaseason camp. Head Coach Kevin Wilson would designate Oakes as a redshirt for the 2013 season.

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In 2014, Oakes was 23-23 in extra point attempts and 13-18 (72 percent) in Field Goals. During the season, he kicked for a season-high, career high and school-career high long 58 yard field goal and converted a total of 62 points in the season. Oakes was selected as the Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week, awarded IU special teams player of the week four times and Academic All-Big Ten honors at the end of the year.

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In 2015, Oakes was 53-57 in Extra Point attempts and 24-29 (82.8 percent) in Field Goals. During the season, he kicked for a total of 125 points. At the end of the year, Oakes was selected by both the coaches and media as a first-team player on the 2015 All-Big Ten Conference football team.

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Prior to the start of the 2016 season, Oakes was named to the 2016 preseason watch list for the Lou Groza Award.

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References

Griffin Oakes Wikipedia