Tony Lazzara Class: RS Senior Hometown: Saint Petersburg, FL High School: Shorecrest Prep Height / Weight: 5-9 / 185 Position: PK/P Experience: 2VL

Lazzara Fact: Held opponents to their own 20 or worse on kickoffs 31 times in 2000.
Fall 2000 Depth Chart Position: Second-team kicker
Years lettered: 1999, 2000
Years Started: 1999
Bowl Game Participation: 1999 Peach vs. Mississippi State, 2001 Gator Bowl vs. Virginia Tech

Overview: Handled 74 of Clemson's 77 kickoffs last year and did an outstanding job...had 17 touchbacks and 18 other kickoffs went to the goal line...had just one kickoff out of bounds all year...opponents had an average starting position of their own 24 yards line and 31 times he held the opposition at their own 20 or better...opponents never had a kickoff return longer than 46 yards all year...had one tackle on kickoff returns, it came against South Carolina...started at plackicker in two games in 2000, he was the starter as a freshman in 1999...had one field goal attempt and he made it, a 26-yarder against Wake Forest...made 6-8 extra points...fine all-around athlete who was 1-1 passing for four yards in 2000 and is 2-2 for 13 yards and a touchdown for his career… has made 40-44 extra points in his Clemson career and has scored 64 total points.

In 1999: Clemson's starting kicker in 1999 in 10 of the 12 games...made 7-12 field goals and is now 8-13 for his career...had 55 points in 1999 to rank second on the team in scoring...had a 43-yard field goal against NC State, longest field goal by a Tiger in the last two years....had nine touchbacks in 33 kickoffs...walk-on with athletic ability as shown by his nine-yard touchdown pass to Vince Ciurciu at Virginia Tech in 1999..had a passing efficiency figure of 505 for the season...the play brought Clemson to within three points in the fourth quarter against the team that played for the National Championship....preseason second-team All-ACC selection for 2000 by Lindy's… finished ninth in the ACC in field goals with 7 in 12 attempts...made a 42-yard field goal against Marshall in his first college game...was 2-2 on field goal against Virginia, hitting from 33 and 21 yards...had 26-yarder against Duke and was 7-8 on extra points...made his last 13 extra points of the year and was 34-36 overall on PATs...opponents averaged just 19.5 yards a return and had average start of the 25-yard line against his kickoffs, best on the Clemson team in 1999...held the opposition to the 20 or worse on starting position 16 times in his 33 kickoffs...started 10 of the 12 games at placekicker .....In 1998: Red-shirted the season as a walk-on kicker.

In High School: Certainly more than just a kicker in high school, he had 3,000 yards rushing and 37 touchdowns over his last two years of high school as a running back...also had 163 tackles on defense as he also started at linebacker...handled all the kicking in addition to his offensive and defensive chores...had 1700 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns, plus a kickoff return for a score as a junior...added 1300 yards and 20 touchdowns as a senior...had 88 tackles as a junior and 75 as a senior...started for Phil Hayford at Shorecrest Prep in St. Petersburg, FL...his father, Dick Lazzara, played two years of football at Florida…his father's company builds yachts...Tony made the Pinellas as County all-star team and was selected for the Florida North-South team...all-county and all-state for three years...lettered four years in football and six years in soccer (spring sport in high school in Florida)...career leader in field goals, extra points and total points at Shorecrest Prep...born Anthony D. Lazzara on 12-10-78...majoring in speech and communication studies at Clemson.