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Ben Buchanan

Position PK Height 5-10 Weight 175 School Central Hometown Westerville, OH Incoming Year 2008
Offered By Ohio State

Initially posted by NickSkin on 03/07/06 at 12:06 pm

2008 PROSPECT: Named 2nd Team All-Ohio as a Freshman 11.30.04 Cincy Post.  An all-conference selection as a Sophomore.  Should be one of the top kickers in Ohio if not the nation.  Rival$ Profile

03/08/06

Posted by NickSkin at 12:29 pm

Freshman season saw Ben hit 7 of 9 (2 blocked) with a long of 44 yards.  Hit 5 of 7 as a Sophomore.  Ben likes Miami

Rival$ 3.8.06

08/11/06

Posted by NickSkin at 12:39 pm

Ben Buchanan, a 16 year old junior kicked a 60 yard field goal in the finals to win the 1st annual Buckeye Kicking Academy competition held at Marv Moorehead Stadium.  The one day competition and camp was organized by former Buckeye and 2000 All-Big Ten kicker Dan Stultz and featured former Buckeye All-American Mike Nugent (2004 Groza Award winner), All-American punter Andy Groom and Stultz.

Two elite competitions were held:
(1.) Punting- which Buchanan won top honors following a 47 yard spiral punt into the wind in the finals. 
(2.) Kicking- which Buchanan also won on the 60 yard field goal in the final! 

Buchanan is a two sport scholar-athlete football/baseball) at Central High with a 3.7 (4.00) GPA in the Honors program. He also lettered in baseball as a Freshman and Sophomore garnering ALL-Ohio Capital Conference HM honors in baseball as a Sophomore in the tough OCC Cardinal.  Buchanan’s cousin Dan Leonard is a starting varsity catcher for the Redhawks baseball team. 

09/01/06

Posted by NickSkin at 7:03 am

Ben’s first game of the season was a record setting performance.  The Warhawks won a defensive and punting battle 10-0 against Dublin Jerome. Field position from Ben’s punting ultimately played a major role in Central’s victory.  Ben also kicked a 47 yard field goal for a new Central High School record.  He had six punts (all spirals) for a 40+ yard average and all three of his kickoffs were into the endzone for touchbacks; the longest was a bomb 9 yards deep into the endzone with a 4.3 hang time!  Ben was selected special teams player of the week by his coaches.

09/14/06

Posted by NickSkin at 7:47 am

The Columbus Dispatch today (9/13/06) released the statistics for Central Ohio and Ben is the Top Punter for all 6 divisions with a 48.3 yard average on 20 punts for 966 yards.

09/25/06

Posted by NickSkin at 11:45 am

Despite the rainy, windy and muddy conditions on Friday night, Ben made two field goals including a 54 yard bomb that split the center of the uprights.  He also had a 60 yard punt. Ben purposely trains in poor weather and on a muddy field when he can to handle such conditions.

Ben made an unofficial recruiting visit to Ohio State during the Penn State game.  Purdue has been stepping up its contact as well.

03/03/07

Posted by NickSkin at 10:54 am

Ben is the Ohio State Buckeyes first committment for 2008

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