EMU: Enters the 2024 season ranked among the best punters in program history… 45.0 yards per punt average for a career ranks No. 1 in EMU history while his 5,219 yards rank No. 11… 2024: Earned 2024 Preseason Athlon Sports All-MAC First Team Specialists… 2023: First Team All-MAC honoree for the second year in a row… Also named the EMU Special Teams MVP Award winner… Punted 67 times for 3,060 yards for an average of 45.7 yards per boot, the second-best average in program history behind Jake Julien’s 45.9 in 2021… His 3,060 yards ranked fourth for a season in EMU history… Nearly one-third of his punts (20-of-67) were over 50 yards with 24 punts landing inside the 20… Ranked first in the MAC and 14th nationally at 45.7 yards per punt… One of just three players nationally to record two punts over 70 yards in 2023… Sent one out 72 yards at Jacksonville State (Sept. 23) and a 70-yarder against Ball State (Oct. 7) for the eighth and 18th-longest punts in the nation, respectively… Named the MAC Special Teams Player of the week three times, including Sept. 18 after punting a then-MAC-best 61 yard punt against UMass (Sept. 16)… Won again the following week (Sept. 25) and was name to the Ray Guy Award ‘Ray’s 8’ following the Jax State game… Punted 10 times in the game with Kent State (Oct. 14), which tied for the third-most punts in a game in 2023 in the FBS… Tallied 430 yards in the game, which was the sixth-best performance nationally and ranks 10th all-time at EMU… Ahead of the season, was named to the Ray Guy Award Preseason Watch List… Earned a place on Athlon Sports' Preseason All-MAC First Team and Phil Steele's Preseason All-MAC Second Team... Following the season, earned Academic All-MAC honors… 2022: First Team All-MAC… Academic All-MAC… MAC West Division Special Teams Player of the Week (Sept. 5)… MAC West Division Special Teams Player of the Week (Oct. 3)… MAC West Division Special Teams Player of the Week (Oct. 31)… MAC West Division Special Teams Player of the Week (Nov. 28)… Ray Guy Watch List… Ray's 8 for Week Six Games (Oct. 10)… Ray's 8 for Week Seven Games (Oct. 17)… College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honoree… Played in all 13 games… Had 49 punts for a total of 2,159-yards with his longest punt being 63-yards against Ball State University (Oct. 22)… Recorded multiple punts over 50-yards twice (against Louisiana Lafayette (Sept. 10), and Northern Illinois (Oct. 15))… 2021: Did not play... HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Worthington Kilbourne High School and played under Head Coach Michael Edwards as a Wolf... Selected First Team Columbus Dispatch All-Metro football team and First Team All-Ohio in Division II as a punter after averaging 39.6 yards per punt as a senior... At quarterback, he also passed for 1,756 yards and 19 TDs... Set records for passing touchdowns in a season, passing yards in a season, pass completions in a season, season punting average, single-game competitions, and longest punt (77 yards)... Was a 2020 MaxPreps preseason Ohio all-state honoree after finishing top-six in the Class of 2021 at the Kohl’s 2020 National Scholarship Camp... Garnered 2020 MaxPrep Preseason First Team All-Great Lakes Region at the punter position, while adding 2020 Ohio Capital Conference Cardinal Division first team honors at as both a QB and a punter... Collected 2019 all-state and region honors as a punter... Racked up first team all-conference accolades at punter and second-team honors at quarterback... Also, earned Kohl’s All-American Team in 2019 after being awarded first team punter for the Class of 2021... Ranked seventh nationally in 2019 by MaxPreps Punter Rank, while leading Ohio and ranking second among only juniors in the class... Averaged over 10 yards per punt more than he did as a sophomore... Worked on his punting during the offseason, attending a camp run by Filip Filipovic, a native of Serbia, who punted for the Dallas Cowboys in 2002, as well as Kohl’s Football Kicking and Punting Camp... As a sophomore, was named second team OCC as a punter... Awarded the Kohl’s 2019 National Scholarship All-Camp Team for punting after finishing third overall in punt scoring... Also was a member of the basketball team, adding second team all-district honors in 2020... PERSONAL: Full Name: Mitchell Lewis Tomasek... Son of Randy and Jessica Tomasek... His great-grandfather played for Ohio State in 1916-17... Marketing major.
