AT SAN JOSE STATE: First season with the Spartans ...Competing for the placekicking job...Signed with the program in February 2012.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2011 first-team District 6-5A selection for Trinity High in Euless, Texas (Coach Steve Lineweaver)... Converted 55-of-60 extra-point attempts and was 8-of-11 kicking field goals...Right-footed kicker kicked a season-long 49-yard field goal... Made his only game-winning opportunity - a 37-yard field goal in overtime against Heritage of Colleyville on September 23 for a 38-35 victory...Two-sport letterwinner who set a school record with 19 goals in soccer as a junior.
MORE ON AUSTIN: Plans to major in business administration ...First started focusing on football in 2009 when he enrolled in a kicking camp run by former Washington Redskins kicker Scott Blanton...Lists The Hangover, Due Date and Anchorman as three of his favorite movies...The native of Newport Beach, Calif., was born on July 20, 1994.
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