Alex Galland Season 2019

AT SAN JOSE STATE: In his first season with the Spartans... Graduate transfer from Yale University... Tops the opening fall depth chart at punter... In line to be the team's holder for kick-scoring opportunities... Pursuing a master’s degree in public administration at San Jose State... Last name is pronounced Gal-land.

AT YALE UNIVERSITY: Four seasons with the Yale football program and earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering... Team's punter and placekicker in 2016, 2017 and 2018... Averaged 37.0 yards per punt for 147 punts as an Eli... Only two of his punts resulted in touchbacks... 49 punts were fair caught and 57 landed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line... 2017 second-team All-Ivy League selection... Converted 91 of 98 PATs and 21-of-30 field goal attempts... Longest Yale field goal was 42 yards in the 30-24 win at Cornell on September 22, 2018... Reshirted the 2015 season.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered in football (Coach Bryan Nixon), soccer and track and field at Liberty High in Bakersfield, Calif. ... A punter, kicker, wide receiver and defensive end during his three varsity seasons... Second-team all-area honoree and the 2014 C.I.F. Central Section Scholar-Athlete of the Year... A California Scholastic Federation scholarship award recipient... Played a halfback position on the soccer team... A hurdler in track and field.
 
MORE ON ALEX:  Employed in 2018 by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, the leading manufacturer of helicopters in the United States... A member of the Yale Precision Marching Band for three years... First learned to play the trumpet and added the guitar to his repertoire of musical instruments once he was in college... Mitch Galland, his dad, was an offensive guard on the 1991 UC Santa Barbara football team, the school’s last squad prior to discontinuing the sport... Alex is native of Bakersfield, Calif.