STANFORD, Calif. - Junior placekicker Joshua Karty has been named an All-American following a record-setting year for the Cardinal. Thus far, he has been named First Team All-America by The Sporting News, Second Team All-America by the Football Writers of America Association (FWAA) and Third Team All-America by the Associated Press (AP).
Karty is just the second placekicker in school history to earn First Team All-America honors (Rod Garcia, 1973). He is the first Cardinal since 2018 to earn All-American honors (Paulson Adebo, FWAA Second Team) and the first Stanford football player to earn First Team All-America honors since 2017 (Bryce Love, Associated Press).
A Burlington, N.C. native, Karty went 18-of-18 on the year on field goal attempts. For his career, Karty is 51-for-52 on PATs and 28-for-34 on field goals. Impressively, his 18 makes came in just seven games, as the kicker was not called on to kick in the season's first three games as well as the Cardinal's games against Washington State and Utah.
He was the only qualified kicker nationally with no misses on the year, and the only kicker with 13 makes of 40+ yards this season. Dating back to 1996, Karty is just the fourth kicker with at least 18 makes to have a perfect season, and just the third kicker with 10+ makes from 40-or-more yards without a miss.
He set the school record with a 61-yard field goal at Cal, and also had makes of 54 yards (vs. BYU) and 53 yards (at Oregon). No kicker nationally had more than three 50+-yard field goals with no misses. Karty's 61-yarder was five yards further than any other kicker this season.
Karty was not only a dangerous weapon in Stanford's field goal unit but also led the Cardinal's kickoff squad. He finished the season with 40 touchbacks on 55 kickoffs and allowed only 11 kickoff returns. Those returns allowed averaged only 17.09 yards per return.
Karty was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award, earning Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week four times and Groza Award Star of the Week twice.