Ricky Miezan Season 2022

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