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ChancePoore
- position Kicker
- height 6-2
- Weight 221
- class Senior
- Hometown Anderson, S.C.
- High school Westside
2021 – Junior
- Handled kickoffs for the Wildcats
- Has a streak of three straight made FGs
2020 – Sophomore
- Handled kickoffs for the Wildcats
- Named Special Teams Player of the Week after his performance vs. Vanderbilt … Enjoyed a perfect day, making a 28-yard field goal on the final play of the first half, along with all five extra points
- Has a streak of three straight made FGs
- Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 – r-Freshman
- Hit 5-of-9 field goals with a career long of 46 vs. Toledo
- Has a streak of two straight made FGs
- 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
- Handled punts, field goals and kickoffs for the Rams
- Named South Carolina 5A Specialist of the Year after hitting 8 of 11 field 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 kickoffs and punts”
- As a junior, converted 16 of 20 field goals with a long of 48, made all 44 extra-point attempts and had 63 percent of his kickoffs go for touchbacks
- Averaged 37.1 yards per punt in 2016 with 11 inside the 20-yard line
- 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
- Major is consumer economics and family financial counseling
Chance Says
- Nickname is “Chance”
- Other than playing in the NFL, his dream job is to be a mortage 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