
ChancePoore
- position Kicker
- height 6-2
- Weight 213
- class Redshirt Fifth Year
- Hometown Anderson, S.C.
- High school Westside
2023 – %Senior
• Elected to return for a sixth year, taking advantage of the NCAA’s ruling to grant an extra year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 – Senior
• Saw action in all 13 games, handling kickoffs and serving as the holder on field goals
• Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
• Dean’s list (Fall 2022)
• Named to NFF Hampshire Honors Society
2021 – Junior
• Played in all 13 games
• Handled kickoff s for the Wildcats
• Has a streak of three straight made FGs
• Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2020 – Sophomore
• Saw action in 11 games
• Named Special Teams Player of the Week after his performance vs. Vanderbilt … Enjoyed a perfect day, making a 28-yard fi eld goal on the final play of the first half, along with all five extra points
• Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 – r-Freshman
• Saw action in nine games
• Hit 5-of-9 fi eld goals with a career long of 46 vs. Toledo
• Hit 24-of-26 extra points
• Totaled 39 points
• Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2018 – Freshman
• Redshirt season
• Saw action in three games, his first collegiate game was at Missouri
• Hit 2-of-4 field goal attempts
High School
• Rated as the No. 1 punter/kicker in the 2018 class by Prokicker.com
• Named South Carolina 5A Specialist of the Year after hitting 8 of 11 fi eld goals and 26 of 27 PATs as a senior
• Prokicker.com’s Rick Sang said “A very talented athlete who dominates his position and has shown great work ethic. He is already capable of launching NFL caliber kickoff s and punts”
• As a junior, converted 16 of 20 fi eld goals with a long of 48, made all 44 extra-point attempts and had 63 percent of his kickoff s go for touchbacks
• Earned the top prospect award for 2017 at the Ray Guy Prokicker.com Kicking Camp
• Selected to play in the prestigious Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas game, pitting the top seniors from North and South Carolina against one another
• Member of two regional title teams coached by Scott Earley
• Also a lettered in soccer and tennis
• Picked Kentucky early and never really considered other offers
Community Cats
• Volunteer speaker at Cardinal Valley Rehabilitation Hospital (2020)
Personal
• Born in Anderson, South Carolina
• Son of Lewis and Jodi Poore
• Siblings are Kara Poore and Kinsley Bailey
• Graduated in December of ’22 with two degrees – business economics and consumer economic/ family financial counseling … Currently working on a master’s degree in finance
Chance Says
• Nickname is “Chance”
• Other than playing in the NFL, his dream job is to be a mortgage broker
• The person who has most influenced him in life is his dad because he pushed him to be the man he is today
• The three people he would invite to his fantasy dinner are Lebron James, Alex Caruso and Adam Sandler
• His sports hero is Chandler Catanzaro