Dave Zastudil
David Michael Zastudil is an American former professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League. He played college football for the Ohio Bobcats, and was selected in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens.
Early life
Zastudil attended Bay High School in Bay Village, Ohio, where he played quarterback, punter, and placekicker and helped to lead his team to an 8–2 record during his senior year. As a senior, Dave passed for 806 yards and accumulated 2,282 yards throughout his career. He averaged 40.7 yards per kick as a senior punter with a long punt of 67 yards; he also made 19 consecutive point-after attempts, made six field goals with a long field goal of 42 yards and averaged 57 yards per kickoff. He was selected twice as an all-state and all-conference punter, and made the all-district team as a kicker and the all-conference team as a quarterback.College career
Dave graduated from Bay High School and attended Ohio University, where he led the Bobcats and the Mid-American Conference in punting for four straight years. As a senior, Zastudil was selected as a first-team All-American by Football News and the Football Writers Association of America, and was selected as a second-team All-American by the Associated Press. He was also a first-team All-Mid-American Conference selection and the MAC's special teams co-player of the year, after leading the MAC in punting four times. During his senior year, Zastudil punted 50 times for 2,280 yards with a 45.6-yard average, with 16 of those punts having come from inside the 20-yard line, seven touchbacks and a long punt of 74 yards.As an underclassman, Zastudil was a first-team All-Mid American Conference selection as a junior, sophomore and freshman. As a sophomore, he was the MAC special teams player of the year and the first-team All-MAC punter after leading the conference in punting. As a freshman, he was also named to the All-America team.
Zastudil also set the school record for the longest punt with a 75-yard punt against the Akron Zips. Dave graduated from Ohio with a double major in finance and marketing.