2023 Football Roster

96 Nathan Fondacaro

  • Class Senior
  • Position P
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 190
  • Hometown Sewell, N.J.
  • Highschool St. Augustine Prep

Biography

CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 SEASON
CAA Football Honorable Mention
2020 (SPRING 2021) SEASON
CAA Football Special Teams Player of the Week (April 5)
FCS Punter of the Year Preseason Watch List (Fall 2020)
2019 SEASON
CAA Football First Team
ACADEMIC HONORS
CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (High Honors with Distinction) Fall 2023
CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Spring 2022, Fall 2023

Villanova: Veteran performer who has been one of the top punters in the CAA … Former first team All-CAA honoree … Possesses a strong kicking leg…Gets good hang time on his punts.

2022: Missed the season due to injury.

2021: Played in 11 games and tallied 43 punts for 1,627 yards (37.8 average) … Had four punts of 50 yards or longer, including a season-long 55-yard effort … Seven of his punts were downed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line, 14 were fair caught and none were blocked; Lehigh (9/4): Punted twice for 67 yards in a 47-3 win in the season opener; Bucknell (9/11): Credited with a 29-yard punt; Richmond (9/18): Had four punts for 151 yards and an average of 37.7 yards per punt; UAlbany (10/16): Averaged 35.5 yards per punt on four attempts; Rhode Island (10/23): Punted twice for 86 yards and averaged 43.0 yards per attempt; William & Mary (10/30): Recorded five punts for 209 yards (41.8 average), including one 50-yard punt; Elon (11/6): Tallied 184 yards on five punts for an average of 36.8 yards per punt; Stony Brook (11/13): Punted a season-high seven times for 239 yards (34.1 average), including a season-long 55-yard punted which was downed inside the 20-yard line; Delaware (11/20): Registered five punts for 202 yards (40.4 average), including a 50-yard effort, as the Wildcats defeated the Blue Hens in the annual “Battle of the Blue” game; Holy Cross (12/3): Punted five times for 222 yards and averaged 44.4 yards per punt with a 53-yard effort in the second round of the FCS playoffs; South Dakota State (12/11): Recorded three punts for 96 yards and averaged 32.0 yards per punt.
 
2020 (Spring 2021): Handled the punting duties for the third straight season … Punted 16 times for an average of 38.4 yards … Had a long punt of 68 yards and counted three attempts of 50 yards or longer during the season … Six of his 16 punts were downed inside the opposing team’s own 20-yard line and three were fair caught; Stony Brook (3/6): Averaged 42.5 yards on four punts, including a 54-yard attempt and one punt downed inside the 20-yard line as the Wildcats defeated the Seawolves in the season opener; Rhode Island (3/13): Punted three times for 100 yards … Had a long punt of 42 yards on the day with two of his punts being downed inside the 20-yard line; Maine (4/3): Earned CAA Special Teams Player of the Week honors after this game … Registered a season-long 68-yard punt which was the fourth attempt of his career of longer than 60 yards … Averaged a season-best 47.5 yards on his four attempts for the day, with two punts of 50+ yards and two downed inside the 20-yard line; Delaware (4/17): Punted a season-high five times and averaged 31.0 yards with one punt downed inside the 20-yard line and one fair caught … His longest attempt of the day went for 46 yards.
 
2019: First team All-CAA performer … Served as the Wildcats punter and handled kickoff duties for the second straight year … Led CAA Football with an average of 43.8 yards per punt … Punted 43 times for a total of 1,883 yards … Recorded a career-long punt of 75 yards and tallied eight attempts of 50 yards or longer … More than one-third of his punts (15 of 43) were downed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line and 12 of his attempts were fair caught … Kicked off 80 times for an average of 58.5 yards with 10 touchbacks and just one kick going out of bounds; Colgate (8/24): Punted five times for an average of 44.0 yards in the season opener … Pinned Colgate inside its own 20-yard line three times … Kicked off six times for an average of 60.5 yards and a touchback; Lehigh (9/7): Tallied his first 50-yard punt of the season an averaged 44.0 yards on five attempts … Put two of his punts inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off seven times for an average of 63.1 yards and three touchbacks; Bucknell (9/14): Blasted a career-long punt of 75 yards which is the 10th-longest punt in the Villanova record book … Averaged a season-best 51.4 yards on his seven punts in the game, including three of 50 yards or longer, two which were fair caught and one which was downed inside the 20-yard line … Tied a season high with eight kickoffs and averaged 52.1 yards with two touchbacks; Towson (9/21): Punted four times for an average of 45.2 yards and a long punt of 52 yards in a road win over the fifth-ranked Tigers … Had one punt inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off eight times for an average of 60.4 yards, with his total of 483 kickoff yards a season high; Maine (9/28): Delivered punts of 61 yards and 40 yards while kickoff seven times for an average of 61.7 yards and two touchbacks; William & Mary (10/5): Punted once for 43 yards and kicked off six times for an average of 63.0 yards with one kick going out of bounds; James Madison (10/12): Recorded a 44-yard punt and kicked off five times for an average of 61.4 yards and a touchback; Stony Brook (10/26): Recorded punts of 51 yards and 44 yards, with one of his attempts being fair caught … Kicked off six times for an average of 60.0 yards; New Hampshire (11/2): Averaged 41.0 yards on five punts, including a long attempt of 53 yards on the day … Had two punts downed inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off four times for an average of 60.8 yards and a touchback; Richmond (11/9): Punted twice, both times for exactly 40 yards, and kicked off six times for an average of 47.7 yards; LIU (11/15): Recorded punts of 39 yards and 25 yards, one of which was downed inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off three times for an average of 54.7 yards; Delaware (11/23): Averaged 41.8 yards on four punts with a long attempt of 49 yards for the day … Two of his punts were downed inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off seven times for an average of 56.3 yards; Southeastern Louisiana (11/30): Punted three times for an average of 34.3 yards per punt, including a long attempt of 44 yards and two kicks which landed inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off seven times for an average of 58.9 yards.
 
2018: Handled the punting and kickoff duties as a true freshman … Had a strong season for the Wildcats and played in all 11 games … Punted 51 times for 2,089 total yards and an average of 41.0 yards per punt … Tallied 10 punts of 50 yards or longer, including a season-long blast of 63 yards … Nearly a third of his punts (15 of 51) were downed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line … Only had one punt blocked … Kicked off 54 times for 3,328 yards … Averaged 61.6 yards per kick and an average net kick of 40.3 yards … Recorded 25 touchbacks on his 54 kickoffs and kicked out of bounds on just one occasion which came in the season opener … Had one assisted tackle on the season; Temple (9/1): In his collegiate debut helped the Wildcats post a 19-17 win over the FBS Owls … Punted three times for an average of 42.7 yards … His longest punt of the day went for 57 yards … His final punt of the game with less than two minutes remaining in the contest pinned Temple at their own eight-yard line … Kicked off four times for an average of 59.2 yards; Lehigh (9/8): Punted six times for an average of 37.2 yards and kicked off six times for an average of 59.2 yards in a 31-9 road victory … His longest punt of the game was for 44 yards and two of his six attempts were inside the 20-yard line … Had three touchbacks on his six kickoffs; Towson (9/15): Had three punts for a total of 112 yard (37.3-yard average) … All three punts were fair caught … Kicked off six times for an average of 64.0 yads and three touchbacks; Bucknell (9/22): Recorded punts of 51 yards and 43 yards in a lopsided 49-7 win … Kicked off eight times for an average of 62.4 yards and two touchbacks; Stony Brook (9/29): Punted five times for an average of 45.4 yards, including a long attempt of 54 yards on the night … Two of his punts were downed inside the 20-yard line … Recorded touchbacks on four of five kickoffs and averaged 61.8 yards per kick; at Maine (10/6): Notched his longest punt of the year with a 63-yard attempt that pinned Maine at their own nine-yard line in the third quarter … Had a 57-yard punt earlier in the game and averaged 47.3 yards on six attempts for the day … Three of his punts were downed inside the 20-yard line on an afternoon where the teams battled for field position throughout … All three of his kickoffs in the contest reached the end zone and two resulted in touchbacks; James Madison (10/13): Recorded a season high by having four of his punts go for 50+ yards in a single game … Punted seven times in all and averaged 45.9 yards per attempt with a long punt of 57 yards … Had one touchback, three fair-caught punts and one attempt downed inside the 20-yard line … Also had a punt blocked for the only time all year … Kicked off once for a touchback; New Hampshire (10/27): Averaged 39.2 yards per attempt on a season-high eight punts … His longest effort of the day was for 54 yards … Four of his attempts were fair caught and two were downed inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off once for a touchback; Richmond (11/3): Punted four times for an average of 34.0 yards and had two of his attempts downed inside the 20-yard line … Kicked off a season-high nine times in the 45-21 victory, averaging 61.3 yads per kick with four touchbacks which tied a season high; William & Mary (11/10): Averaged 40.0 yards on three punts with a long attempt of 48 yards for the day … Kicked off four times for an average of 61.0 yards and three touchbacks; Delaware (11/17): Punted four times in the season finale, with three of his attempts being fair caught … Averaged 32.5 yads per punt with one attempt landing inside the Blue Hens 20-yard line … Kicked off seven times for an average of 60.4 yards and two touchbacks as the Wildcats won the annual ‘Battle of the Blue’ game by a 42-21 margin.
 
St. Augustine Prep: Earned four varsity letters each in football and swimming & diving … Was an all-league football performer … Rated a five-star kicker and punter by Kohl’s Kicking.
 
Personal: Born 4/28/00 … Second of three children of Greg and Donna Fondacaro.

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Historical Player Information

  • 96

    2018Freshman

    K/P
    5'10" 180 lbs
    96
  • 96

    2019Sophomore

    K/P
    5'10" 185 lbs
    96
  • 96

    2020Junior

    K/P
    5'10" 185 lbs
    96
  • 96

    2021Senior

    K/P
    5'10" 190 lbs
    96
  • 96

    2023Senior

    P
    5'10" 190 lbs
    96