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2024 Football Roster

13 Gunnar Abseck

  • Position Wide Receiver
  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 165
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Cedar Park, Texas
  • Highschool Cedar Park

Biography

Awards:
  • Honorable Mention All-Lone Star Conference (WR) (2024)
  • NFF Hampshire Honor Society (2024)
  • College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Football Team (2024)
2024 (Graduate Student):
Named Honorable Mention All-LSC as a wide receiver... Played in all 12 games and caught 25 passes for 250 yards and one touchdown... Averaged 10.0 yards per catch and 20.8 receiving yards per game... Was also 5-for-6 on two-point conversions (3-3 Rush; 2-3 Pass)... Had at least one reception in each of the first eight games of the season and had a catch in all but one game throughout the course of the season... Led the team with a season-high five catches during a 27-3 road win at Midwestern State (Sept. 28)... Caught four passes for 80 yards and opened the fourth-quarter with an impressive 40-yard touchdown catch and run during his Senior Day vs. Western Oregon (Oct. 19), putting him over the 1,000-yard mark in his career (1,053 career yards)... Was also the team's primary punt returner, secondary kickoff returner, and was the holder on all field goal and extra point attempts... Had 14 punt returns for 103 yards and had four kickoff returns for 66 yards... 14 punt returns and 103 punt return yards this season both rank second in program history... 32 career punt returns and 236 career punt return yards are both a program record... Named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team... Announced as a member of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) 2025 Hampshire Honor Society...  Also named to the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Lone Star Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll with a 4.0 GPA for both semesters in graduate school... Has been named to the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll in each of the last five semesters and six semesters overall... Earned 2025 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award.

2023 (Senior):
Played in 12 games … Caught 19 passes for 252 yards and a touchdown … Had four catches with a touchdown vs. Western New Mexico (Nov. 4) ... LSC Commissioners Honor Roll for fall semester... Was a member of the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll in both semesters (4.0 GPA in the Spring semester)... Graduated with his Bacehlor's degree in human performance (coaching).

2022 (Sophomore):
Played in 11 games … Had a breakthrough season catching 46 passes (fourth best in school history at the time) for 509 yards and four touchdowns, returned six kickoffs for 153 yards and 13 punts for 101 yards … Punt returns and yards were second best in UTPB history … Totaled 763 yards in all-purpose yardage … Totaled a career-high 185 yards in all-purpose yardage against Southwest Baptist (Sept. 3) … Scored his first collegiate touchdown vs. Western Oregon (Sept. 24) … Had seven catches for a career-high 104 yards and touchdown against Simon Fraser (Oct. 8)... Was a member of the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll in Spring 2023 (4.0 GPA).

2021 (First-Year):
Played in 11 games … Had five catches for 42 yards, returned a kickoff for eight yards and two punts for 30 yards... Was a member of the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll in Fall 2021.

Cedar Park High School:
Texas Sports Writers Association All-State 5A honorable mention and All-District 11-5A first team.

Personal:
Career, second with 18 punt returns and third in yards (131).

Statistics

Season:
2024

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 82

    2021Freshman

    Wide Receiver
    5'9" 155 lbs
    82
  • 13

    2022Sophomore

    Wide Receiver
    5'9" 155 lbs
    13
  • 13

    2023Senior

    Wide Receiver
    5'9" 165 lbs
    13
  • 13

    2024Graduate Student

    Wide Receiver
    5'9" 165 lbs
    13