Kellen Mond
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| Texas A&M Aggies – No. 11 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class | Junior |
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| Born: | June 22, 1999 San Antonio, Texas |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 217 lb (98 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| Bowl games | |
| High school | IMG Academy |
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Kellen Louis Mond (born June 22, 1999) is an American football quarterback for the Texas A&M Aggies.
High school career
Mond originally attended Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio, Texas before transferring to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida prior to his senior year.[1] As a senior, he passed for 1,936 yards and 20 touchdowns and rushed for 775 yards and 18 touchdowns. Mond was rated by the Rivals.com recruiting network as a five-star recruit and was ranked as the number one dual-threat quarterback in his class.[2] He committed to Texas A&M University to play college football under head coach Kevin Sumlin.[3][4]
College career
Mond entered his freshman year at Texas A&M in 2017 as a backup to Nick Starkel, but took over as the starter after Starkel was injured during the first game of the season against the UCLA Bruins.[5] In his first career start, he completed 12-of-21 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown.[6] Prior to Texas A&M's first game of the NCAA 2018-2019 season, Jimbo Fisher, who was in his first year as Texas A&M's head coach, replacing Kevin Sumlin, announced that Kellen Mond would be the starting quarterback for the season opener.[7] Despite an initial feeling that Mond and Nick Starkel would continue to battle for the job after a long competition over the summer,[8] Mond held on to the starting position for the remainder of the season, guiding the Aggies to an 8–4 record and a #19 ranking in the regular season College Football Playoff rankings.[9] The Aggies' season culminated in a historic 74–72 seven-overtime win over SEC rival Louisiana State University (LSU). This game set several records, including the most points ever scored in a game in the FBS era, and tied a handful of other games for longest college football game of all time with seven overtimes.[10]
References
- ^ "Football: Reagan QB Mond to transfer to Florida prep academy". December 28, 2015.
- ^ "Rivals.com". n.rivals.com.
- ^ "No. 2 dual-threat QB commits to Texas A&M".
- ^ "Former San Antonio Reagan High School QB Kellen Mond commits to Texas A&M University".
- ^ robert.cesssna@theeagle.com, ROBERT CESSNA. "Cessna: Kellen Mond appears locked in as Kevin Sumlin's QB".
- ^ "Texas A&M to continue using QBs Kellen Mond, Jake Hubenak against Louisiana-Lafayette". September 12, 2017.
- ^ ago, Jeff Shull 3 months (August 27, 2018). "Texas A&M Football: Kellen Mond won the starting quarterback job, for now". Gig Em Gazette. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Franco, Angel (August 23, 2018). "Jimbo Fisher 'confident' with either Starkel or Mond as starting quarterback". The Battalion. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- ^ "College Football Playoff". College Football Playoff. December 2, 2018. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- ^ West, Jenna (November 25, 2018). "Texas A&M beats LSU in 7 OT, highest scoring FBS game ever". SI.com. Retrieved December 5, 2018.