2025 Football Signees
Sep 12 (Fri)
6:30 p.m.
Mitch McCarthy
- Weight:
- 230
- Height:
- 6-5
- Position:
- P
- Year:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Melbourne, Australia
- High School:
- Frankston
CAREER NOTES & RECORDS
Appeared in 38 career games ... Played in 37 games over three seasons at UCF ... Landed 40 punts inside the 20-yard line ... Averaged 43.1 yards per punt on 116 career punts.
2025 (Senior Season)
Season: Started one game at punter.
Old Dominion (8/30): Made Indiana debut ... Hit one punt for 47 yards ... Lone punt was downed inside the 20-yard line.
2024 (Junior Season - UCF)
Season: Appeared in 12 games.
New Hampshire (8/29): Landed both punts inside the 20-yard line with a 37.5 yards per punt average. Sam Houston State (9/7): Averaged 39.0 yards on two punts ... Landed one punt inside the 20-yard line. at TCU (9/14): All three punts traveled 50-plus yards ... Landed one punt inside the 20-yard line ... Punting average was 50.7 yards per punt. Colorado (9/28): Hit three punts for a 42.3 yard average ... Pinned one punt inside the 20-yard line. at Florida (10/5): Punted three times for a 46.3-yard average. Cincinnati (10/12): Averaged 46.3 yards per pint on three punts ... Hit one 50-yard punt. at Iowa State (10/19): Punted nine times for an average of 45.2 yards per punt ... Two punts finished inside the 20-yard line. BYU (10/26): Landed three punts inside the 20-yard line ... Averaged 43.5 yards per punt on four boots. Arizona (11/2): Lone punt traveled 40 yards and landed inside the 20-yard line. at Arizona State (11/9): Hit one punt for 48 yards ... Lone boot landed inside the 20-yard line. at West Virginia (11/23): Pinned two of four punts inside the 20-yard line ... Averaged 44.0 yards per punt in the game. Utah (11/29): Averaged 42.0 yards per punt on five punts ... Put three punts inside the 20-yard line.
2023 (Sophomore Season - UCF)
Season: Appeared in 13 games.
Kent State (8/31): Lone punt traveled 42 yards. at Boise State (9/9): Hit two punts for 46.5 yards per punt ... Landed one punt inside the 20-yard line ... Long punt went 54 yards. Villanova (9/16): Averaged 48.0 yards per punt on three boots ... Placed one punt inside the 20-yard line ... Long punt went 52 yards. at Kansas State (9/23): One of two punts landed inside the 20-yard line ... Averaged 39.0 yards per punt. Baylor (9/30): Booted two punts for a 34.0-yard average. at Kansas (10/7): Four punts averaged 37.0 yards ... One punt landed inside the 20-yard line. at Oklahoma (10/21): Averaged 39.0 yards on seven punts ... One punt landed inside the 20-yard line. West Virginia (10/28): Lone punt traveled 36 yards. at Cincinnati (11/4): Hit four punts for 43.0 yards per punt ... Long punt traveled 64 yards ... Landed one punt inside the 20-yard line. Oklahoma State (11/11): Averaged 44.3 yards per punt on three punts ... One punt finished inside the 20-yard line. at Texas Tech (11/18): Two of three punts finished inside the 20-yard line ... Averaged 43.7 yards per punt ... Long punt went 50 yards. Houston (11/25): Lone punt went 33 yards. vs. Georgia Tech (12/22): Hit three punts for an average of 44.7 yards per punt.
2022 (Freshman Season - UCF)
Season: Appeared in 12 games ... Did not appear in first two games of the season ... Made collegiate debut at FAU (9/17).
at FAU (9/17): Made collegiate debut with one punt for 46 yards. Georgia Tech (9/24): Had three punts for a 43.7-yard average ... One punt landed inside the 20-yard line ... Long punt traveled 54 yards. SMU (10/5): Hit five punts for 41.4 yards per punt ... One punt finished inside the 20-yard line. Temple (10/13): Lone punt traveled 40 yards. at East Carolina (10/22): Booted two punts for a 43.0-yard average. Cincinnati (10/29): Hit five punts for a 40.6-yard average ... Landed two punts inside the 20-yard line ... Long punt traveled 52 yards. at Memphis (11/5): Four punts averaged 44.3 yards ... One punt landed inside the 20-yard line ... Long punt went 43 yards. at Tulane (11/12): Averaged 29.0 yards per punt on two boots. Navy (11/19): Three of four punts landed inside the 20-yard line ... Averaged 48.3 yards per punt ... Long punt went 56 yards. at USF (11/26): Lone punt went 46 yards. at Tulane (12/3): Punted seven times for an average of 46.0 yards per punt ... Put two punts inside the 20-yard line ... Long punt went 52 yards. at Duke (12/28): hit four punts for 47.3 yards per punt ... Long punt traveled 60 yards ... Placed two punts inside the 20-yard line.
Prep/Personal
Did not participate in American football prior to arriving at UCF in 2022 ... Spent one year at Village Christian High School in California and participated in basketball before he was Selected No. 7 overall in the 2016 Australian Rules Football Rookie Draft by Collingwood ... ... Trained with ProKick Australia in the fall of 2021.
