Wynn Kopp Class: Senior Hometown: Athens, GA High School: Clarke Central Last College: UGA Height / Weight: 5-9 / 172 Position: Punter Experience: 3VL

Kopp Fact: Will return to Sanford Stadium in Athens for the season opener of 2002.

Fall 2001 Depth Chart Position: First-team Punter

Years Lettered: 1998 and 1999 (both years at Georgia), 2001 at Clemson

Years Startered: 1998 and 1999 (both years at Georgia), 2001 at Clemson

Bowl Game Participation: 1998 Chick fil A Peach Bowl for Georgia against Virginia; 1999 Hall of Fame Bowl for Georgia against Purdue; 2001 Humanitarian Bowl for Clemson against Louisiana Tech.

Overview: Clemson starting punter for every game last year...had a modest 38.5 average, but allowed just 143 punt return yards on his 48 punts ...had a solid 36.5-yard net punting average, best by a Tiger punter since 1995...had six games in which he had over a 40-yard average...went a five-game stretch at midseason in which he had only three punts returned for 26 total yards...had 43-yard average for his first two games combined...had 45-yard average at NC State...might have had his best outing against Florida State when he had nearly a 40-yard net figure... had 10 touchbacks and eight punts inside the 20 in his 48 attempts, two of the punts -20 came in the bowl game...had a long punt of 55 yards against NC State...ranked sixth in the ACC in gross punting last year...had just one punt return over 15 yards against him all year... had a season high seven punts against North Carolina for a 40.7 gross average and a 40.3 net average...veteran of three bowl games, two at Georgia and one at Clemson.. .has been on the winning side in all three bowl games he has played...a member of LIFELINE at Clemson, the football team's leadership organization, the last two years...authored an 80-page book on punting that was published by his family...Wynn, his father and brother analyzed 481 punts from the 2000 NFL season and published the results...Baltimore Ravens were some of the people who bought the book...concluded that height was just as important as distance and he follows this theory in his approach...his father was a punter in High School and his brother, Rhett, punted at Carson-Newman.

In 2000: Red-shirted the season at Clemson due to the NCAA transfer rule...transferred the Clemson when former Georgia Coach Jim Donnan decided not to put him on scholarship for the 2000 season...ironically, the season opener is at Georgia this year.

At Georgia: Had a 36.8 career net punting figure at Georgia for 82 attempts in 21 games for the Bulldogs...he allowed just 50 total punt return yards on his 82 punts at Georgia, only 28 of his 82 punts 34 percent of his punts were returned at Georgia...his career long punt was a 60-yarder against Utah State in 1999...had 26 career punts inside the 20, almost a third of his attempts.

In 1999: Had a 38.4 gross average, but a 38.1 net figure for Georgia that season... allowed only 11 punt return yards all season on his 37 punts...also served as the holder for the Bulldogs...had his best game against Utah State in the season opener with a 44.2 average on five punts, including a career best 60-yarder...had two other games in which he averaged over 40 yards a boot, a 47.5 yard average on two attempts against Kentucky and a 40.2 average on five attempts at Georgia Tech....had 13 punts inside the 20 for the 1999 season...holder on Hap Hines game-winning placekick that culminated Georgia's 28-25 win over Purdue in the Outback Bowl...Georgia had trailed 25-0 and it remains the greatest comeback in NCAA bowl game history....he did not punt in that game...In 1998: As a freshman served as Georgia's number-one punter...prime reason Georgia ranked sixth in the nation in fewest punt return yards allowed, he allowed just 39 return yards on his 45 punts that year...had his best game of the year against Tennessee when he had a 45.8 average on four punts, including a season long 52-yarder...had solid 38-yard average against Mississippi on five attempts...punted eight times in Georgia's narrow Peach Bowl win over Virginia...had 13 punts inside the 20 out of his 45 attempts in 1998.

High School: Two-year strarter for Clarke Central as place kicker and punter...helped team to 11-2 record as a junior, earning second-team All-Northeast Georgia recognition as a place kicker...named All-State as a punter during senior season...also played baseball...coached by Steve Brooks...born David G. Kopp on 7-12-79...majoring in speech and communication studies at Clemson.