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Career Accolades

  • Four-time Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Frank Rehm Award
  • 2022 All-Pac-12 third team linebacker (Phil Steele)
  • 2022 All-Pac-12 honorable mention linebacker (Coaches)

As a Fifth Year (2022)

  • Team Captain
  • Frank Rehm Award- most outstanding defensive player in the 125th Big Game
  • All-Pac-12 honorable mention linebacker (Coaches)
  • All-Pac-12 third team linebacker (Phil Steele)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 11 games, making four starts
  • Finished tied for the fifth-most tackles on the team (46)
  • Recorded seven tackles-for-loss, including four sacks, and added three quarterback hurries
  • Tallied first sack of season and third of career against USC (Sept. 10)
  • Season-high five tackles with two tackles-for-loss at Washington (Sept. 24)

As a Senior (2021)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year nominee
  • Appeared in 11 games with eight starts at inside linebacker
  • Finished second on the team with 68 tackles
  • Added 6.5 TFLs, 2.0 sacks, two pass breakups, a QB hurry and recovered a fumble
  • Returned from injury to lead the Cardinal with eight tackles, seven solo, in the season opener against Kansas State (Sept. 4)
  • Was second on the team with seven total tackles in the win at No. 14 USC (Sept. 11)
  • Had 1.5 sacks and a QB hurry, along with five tackles against No. 24 UCLA (Sept. 25)
  • Made eight tackles with 0.5 sack and 1.5 TFL against No. 3 Oregon (Oct. 2)
  • Recovered a fumble and added six tackles at No. 22 Arizona State (Oct. 8)
  • Had eight tackles with a TFL at Washington State (Oct. 16)
  • Made six tackles with a TFL against Washington (Oct. 30)
  • Made a career high nine tackles against Notre Dame (Nov. 27)

As a Junior (2020)

  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
  • Played in and started the season opener before an injury ended his season
  • Totaled four tackles and one tackle for loss
  • Made first career start and finished with a career-best four solo tackles, including one for loss, at No. 12 Oregon (Nov. 7)

As a Sophomore (2019)

  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll 
  • Played in the first two games before suffering a season-ending injury

As a Freshman (2018)

  • Played in each of the last four games - eligible to retain year of eligibility via NCAA redshirt rules
  • Made collegiate debut against Oregon St. (Nov. 10)
  • Stanford went 4-0 in games in which he played

Prior to Stanford 

  • Prepped at Episcopal (Va.) under head coach Panos Voulgaris
  • First played football as a junior in high school
  • 55 tackles and seven sacks as a senior
  • 2017 Under Armour All-America
  • 2017 all-state first team
  • 2017 all-IAC first team
  • 2017 all-MET honorable mention
  • 2016 all-IAC second team
  • Led football team to 2016 IAC title
  • School-record 65-yard punt
  • Also competed in soccer, lacrosse and track
  • Nation's third-rated lacrosse player as a senior
  • Nation's top-rated lacrosse player as a junior
  • 2017 all-state first team in lacrosse
  • Three-time All-IAC first team in lacrosse
  • 2017 all-MET second team in lacrosse
  • 2016 team MVP in lacrosse
  • Two-time lacrosse team captain
  • Led track team to third-place finish at 2016 state meet in 400m relay
  • Led soccer team to 2015 IAC title

Personal

  • Full name is Frederic Robert Miezan
  • Born in Washington, D.C.
  • Son of William and Julie Miezan
  • Father competed in the 1996 Olympic Games as a sprinter on the 4x100m relay team for Cote D'Ivoire
  • Has one brother, Willy
  • Brother played soccer at Longwood
  • Father and brother were born and raised in Ivory Coast
  • Grandfather coached Ivory Coast Olympic kayaking team
Ricky_Miezan_DE_07182018_175
2018
Inside Linebacker
6-2 / 248 lbs
Ricky_Miezan_DE_KAH_071019_094
2019
Inside Linebacker
6-2 / 241 lbs
Ricky_Miezan_MG_10162020_281
2020
Inside Linebacker
6-2 / 240 lbs
Ricky_Miezan_DZ_072121_014
2021
Inside Linebacker
6-2 / 247 lbs