Sean Snyder is a retired football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 punter, who was an all-American at Kansas State University

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

. He is the son of Kansas State

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

 head football coach Bill Snyder

Bill Snyder

Bill Snyder is the head football coach at Kansas State University. He was rehired to the position on November 24, 2008, making Snyder one of the rare college football head coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. Snyder previously served as head coach at the school from 1989 to...

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High school

Snyder earned first-team all-area and second-team all-district honors as a punter and kicker at Greenville High School in Greenville, Texas

Greenville, Texas

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. He also played baseball.

College career

After redshirting his first season at Iowa

University of Iowa

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 in 1988, Snyder saw action in two games for the Hawkeyes as a redshirt freshman in 1989. He transferred to Kansas State, following his father, Bill. Due to NCAA rules, he was forced to sit out the 1990 season. In 1991, as a junior, he was named Named the 1991 Big Eight Defensive Newcomer of the Year by the conference coaches after finishing fourth in the league and 27th nationally with a 40.5 punting average. He also earned honorable mention All-Big Eight honors from the Associated Press and the coaches and out-punted six of his seven Big Eight counterparts in head-to-head matchups, including all three punters that finished ahead of him in the overall statistics.

In 1992 as senior, he was Named first-team All-American

1992 College Football All-America Team

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 by the AP and the AFCA and was named the First first-team All-American at Kansas State since Gary Spani

Gary Spani

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 in 1977, a span of 15 years. Snyder finished his senior season by rewriting the Kansas State punting record book and broke the Wildcat records for best punting average with 52.8 yards per punt. He was also was a first team All-Big Eight selection by the Associated Press and the league's coaches. Had at least one punt of 52 yards or more in all but one game and has booted at least one 60 yarder in four of 11 games.

Career statistics

Year	Team	G	No	Yards	Avg	Long
1989 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Miami winning its third National Championship during the 80s, cementing its claim as the decade's top team, winning more titles than any other program....	Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes football The Iowa Hawkeyes football team is the interscholastic football team at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hawkeyes have competed in the Big Ten Conference since 1900, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...	11	7	237	33.9	47
1991 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split champion for the second consecutive season. Both the Miami Hurricanes and the Washington Huskies finished the season undefeated and with the top ranking in a nationally recognized poll...	Kansas State 1991 Kansas State Wildcats football team The 1991 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the college football season of 1991. The team's head football coach was Bill Snyder. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1991 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 7-4, and a 4-3 record in Big...	11	55	2,228	40.5	64
1992 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first year of the Bowl Coalition, and ended with Alabama's first national championship in thirteen years—their first since the departure of Bear Bryant...	Kansas State 1992 Kansas State Wildcats football team The 1992 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the college football season of 1992. The team's head football coach was Bill Snyder. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1992 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 5-6, and a 2-5 record in Big...	11	80	3,572	44.7	46
	Career Totals	33	142	6,037	42.5	64