University of Northern Iowa Athletics
2011 Football Roster
Roster
Ben Boothby
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Clinton, Iowa
- High School:
- Clinton
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2011: One of 20 candidates named to the preseason Buck Buchanan Award watch list for the top individual defensive honor in FCS football ... named first-team preseason All-American by The Sports Network ... second-team choice for Phil Steele's 2011 Preseason FCS All-America team.
2010: First team All-Missouri Valley Football Conference selection ... started all 12 games on the defensive line for the MVFC champions ... named to the ESPN Academic All-America second team, as selected by CoSIDA ... also named to the CoSIDA/ESPN Academic All-District team ... ranked No. 12 in the nation among FCS players with 9.5 sacks on the season ... led the MVFC with 9.5 sacks and tied for the conference lead with 16.0 tackles-for-loss ... racked up 56 total tackles on the season, including 24 solo stops ... tied a school record with four sacks in a season-opening 16-9 victory over North Dakota State (9/11), earning MVFC Defensive Player of the Week honors ... registered two sacks against Missouri State (11/13) ... racked up a season-high 9 tackles, 1.5 sacks and 3.5 TFLs against Lehigh in the FCS Playoffs (11/27) ... recipient of the President's Council Academic Award, the MVFC's highest academic achievement ... first-team MVFC All-Academic Team.
2009: Named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District first team ... second team All-Academic selection in the Missouri Valley Football Conference ... Played all 11 games, starting 8 times on the defensive line ... recorded 27 total tackles ... made five tackles-for-loss ... tallied 2.5 sacks for a loss of 21 yards ... recorded one forced fumble and one fumble recovery at Iowa (9/5) ... notched a season-high four tackles on three different occasions ... made 1.5 TFLs at Missouri State (9/26).
2008: Served as a reserve fullback ... missed all of spring drills with a broken wrist.
2007: Redshirted.
High School: Named to the Des Moines Register's Elite All-State team ... first-team all-state (Class 4A) selection by the Iowa Newspaper Association and the Des Moines Register ... unanimous all-MAC pick on offense and defense ... first-team all-metro captain pick by Quad City Times ... Clinton Herald Player of the Year ... 2007 Shrine Bowl invitee ... opened holes for MAC leading rusher Tony Bassett, who rushed for 1,515 yards ... won the 285-pound Class 3A state wrestling title as a senior with a 44-2 record ... placed third in the state at heavyweight in wrestling as a junior with a 39-5 mark ... posted a career prep wrestling mark of 107-33 ... member of National Honor Society ... honor roll student ... four-year member of the 3.0 Club ... ranked in the top 10 percent of his high school class ... earned letters in football (3), wrestling (3) and track (1) ... high school coach: Lee Camp.
Personal: Born Sept. 10, 1988, in Emmetsburg, Iowa ... son of Jim and Rhonda Boothby ... has a sister, Anne ... majoring in exercise science/pre-physical therapy ... selected UNI because "it's a great school; great place to take my educational field; great campus."
Boothby's Career Defensive Stats
Year G-GS UT AT Total TFL Sacks INT FF FR PBU
2009 11-8 5 22 27 5.0 2.5 0 1 1 0
2010 12-12 24 32 56 16.0 9.5 0 0 0 0
Totals 23-20 29 54 83 21.0 12.0 0 1 1 0
Boothby's Game-By-Game Tackling Stats (Solo-Ast)
2009
@Iowa 1-3
South Dakota 1-1
St. Francis (Pa.) 0-4
@Missouri State 1-1
Indiana State 0-3
@North Dakota St. 0-1
Southern Illinois 1-2
@South Dakota St. 1-3
Youngstown State 0-0
Western Illinois 0-1
@Illinois State 0-3
2010
North Dakota St. 4-3
Stephen F. Austin 2-0
@Iowa State 2-0
South Dakota St. 0-3
@Southern Illinois 4-3
@South Dakota 1-4
Illinois State 0-4
@Youngstown St. 1-3
@Indiana State 2-2
Missouri State 4-1
@Western Illinois 2-2
Lehigh 2-7
