Hokies Add a Kicker to the Mix in 2008

LancasterOnline.com photo of Justin Myer.By Gary Cope

With senior kickers Jared Develli and Jud Dunlevy gone to graduation, Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer, who is also the special teams coach, was looking for some new blood to compete for the kicking job in 2008. And today, he added a kicker to the mix in Lancaster County, Penn.’s Justin Myer.

“I feel like I have a really good chance to win the kickoff job,” Myer said in an interview with the Lancaster New Era. “They said if I win the kickoff job, they’ll put a scholarship up. Not having a scholarship going in will help me with training and preparation.”

Myer kicked a Central High School record 47 field goals this season and was focusing his college search on Division I-AA schools before Virginia Tech “came out of nowhere” and offered him a preferred walk-on spot.

Read the entire article by Jeffrey Reinhart.


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