Football

ChancePoore

  • position Kicker
  • height 6-2
  • Weight 208
  • class Senior
  • Hometown Anderson, S.C.
  • High school Westside

Career
• Played in a team-high 61 career games
• Four-time member of the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
• Named to the NFF Hampshire Honors Society and was a member of the Dean’s List in 2022
• Hit 8-of-14 field goals and 32-of-34 extra points for 56 career points
• Totaled three tackles in his career on special teams

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
• Saw action in 12 games, missing the South Carolina contest with injury
• Went 8-of-8 on touchbacks vs. Ball State, 5-of-5 vs. EKU, 3-of-6 vs. Akron, 6-of-8 at Vanderbilt, 7-of-7 vs. Florida, 1-of-3 at Georgia, 0-of-4 vs. Missouri, 4-of-6 vs. Tennessee and 2-of-5 at Mississippi State, 0-of-3 vs. Alabama, 0-of-1 at Louisville (36 of 56 kicks)

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 … At the time of this writing was 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

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