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Football
2005: Saw action in all 15 games ... drew seven starting assignments ... shared the backfield duties with fellow senior David Horne ... ranked second on the team with 656 rushing yards and nine touchdowns ... rushed for two touchdowns in UNI's 49-14 win over Minnesota-Duluth (9/10) ... tallied 78 rushing yards and two touchdowns in UNI's 41-24 victory at Western Illinois (10/1) ... caught a 65-yard touchdown pass from Eric Sanders in UNI's 24-21 loss at Missouri State (10/8) ... set a season-high with 128 rushing yards and two touchdowns in UNI's 31-10 homecoming win over Indiana State (10/15) ... carried 15 times for 69 yards and a touchdown in the regular season finale win over Northern Arizona (11/19) ... rushed eight times for 41 yards in the 2005 NCAA I-AA National Championship game against Appalachian State. 2004: Played in all 11 games, starting 10...Did not start versus Western Kentucky due to minor injury...Led the team in rushing, carrying the ball 244 times for 1,100 yards and seven TDs, his second consecutive season with at least 1,000 yards rushing, becoming the 16th runner in school history to reach that milestone...Ranks 10th on UNI's all-time leaders chart for yards in a season...Caught five passes for 31 yards and one TD...Also attempted one pass and recorded one solo tackle...Season-high 36 carries for 236 yards against Western Illinois...Rushed for at least 100 yards in four games...Preseason Walter Payton Award candidate...Was slowed early in the year due to a thigh contusion and bronchitis, but after turning to form in the last six games, the Panthers out-gained their opponents 2,057 to 1,152...Received the Gateway's Offensive Player of the Week award and CollegeSportsReport.com's GFC Performer of the Week recognition following the Western Illinois game, and CollegeSports Gateway Performer of the Week after the Southwest Missouri State game...Named first team all-conference and third team All-West Region by Don Hansen...Preseason honors included Gateway all-conference, The Sports Network all-American honorable mention, special mention for offense by CollegeSportsReport.com...Finished the season ranked 28th in 1-AA in rushing and 76th in all-purpose...Ranked 20th among NCAA active career leaders in carries, tied for 25th in rushing TDs, ranked 10th in rushing yards per game, seventh in all-purpose plays per game, 25th in rushing yards, fourth in carries per game and 22nd in yards per carry...Finished the season ranked third in the Gateway in rushing and fifth in all-purpose running...Ranks ninth on UNI's career rushing yards chart (2,361), eighth in rushing attempts (548), sixth in rushing TDs (23). 2003: Started 11-of-12 games played, missing the Northwestern State game due to an ankle injury...Finished the season ranked 26th nationally in individual rushing, 17th in scoring and 62nd in all-purpose running...Ranked fifth in the league in rushing, seventh in all-purpose running and third in scoring...Was added to the revised Walter Payton Award "watch list" about midway through the season, placing 14th of 17 candidates with 26 points, including one first-place vote...Awarded Gateway co-Offensive Player of the Week, DOPKE.com Gateway Conference Performer of the Week, 1-AA.org All-Star and Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette for his performance against Stephen F. Austin when he rushed 33 times for 249 yards...Also was the DOPKE.com Gateway Conference Performer of the Week following the Illinois State game when he rushed 28 times for 170 yards...Named the Gateway's Newcomer of the Year and first team all-conference...Rushed 33 times for a career-high 249 yards and two touchdowns in UNI's win at Stephen F. Austin...Also spotlighted in ESPN's Top 10 Plays of the Day with his first touchdown run against SFA...His 249-yard effort was UNI's first 200-yard-plus effort since Jeff Stovall rushed for 248 yards in 1996...Named UNI's offensive player of the game for his efforts at SFA...Holds school records in rushes attempted in a season (304) and yards gained rushing in a season (1,261) and his 16 TDs ties a school record...Also caught seven passes for 61 yards with a long of 23. 2002: Sat out his sophomore year at School of Science to concentrate on academics. At NDS School of Science: As a freshman, first team all-region, running for 1,429 yards, the nation's second-leading junior college rusher...2001, NJCAA honorable mention all-American...2002, preseason NJCAA 1st team all-American. High School: Set state's all-time career rushing record of 6,545 yards, a mark re-set in 2002...First team all-conference, all-Metro, all-state, Des Moines Register all-Elite team in 2000...Played for the 1998 conference championship team which advanced to the state quarterfinals with an 8-3 record...1999 team also was conference champ and a state runner-up with a 13-1 mark...2000 conference champs and state quarterfinalists with a 10-1 record...Coached by Pat Mitchell. Personal: Brother of former UNI all-American linebacker and assistant coach William Freeney...Son of William and Frankie Freeney...Born April 10, 1983...Majoring in Criminology. Freeney's Career Rushing Stats Year G-GS No. Yds. Avg. TD LG HG 2003 12-11 304 1,261 4.2 16 71 249 2004 11-10 244 1,100 4.5 7 34 236 2005 15-7 172 656 3.8 9 33 128 Totals 38-28 720 3,017 4.2 32 71 249 Freeney's Career Receiving Stats Year G-GS No. Yds. Avg. TD LG HG 2003 12-11 7 61 8.7 0 23 32 2004 11-10 5 31 6.2 1 9 9 2005 15-7 13 144 11.1 1 65 71 Totals 38-28 25 236 9.4 2 65 71 |
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