{"id":17584,"date":"2026-10-09T14:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=17584"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:06:11","slug":"first-year-punter-ranks-9th-in-diii-in-average-punt-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2026\/10\/09\/first-year-punter-ranks-9th-in-diii-in-average-punt-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"First-year punter ranks 9th in DIII in average punt yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dayton Stauffer \u201930, staff writer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LVC\u2019s first-year punter is ranked ninth in all of Division III in average yards per punt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After senior starting punter Max Wisensale went down with a knee injury in the team\u2019s scrimmage against Thaddeus Stevens, backup punter Jake Musselman stepped up and became the team\u2019s starter. Musselman was recruited as a kicker and punter out of Boyertown High School.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis guy goes down next man up, right? I think the best way to deal with it is to know that you\u2019ve been recruited here.\u201d Musselman said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musselman knows his spot in the top 10 isn\u2019t completely locked up and knows he must continue this level of play. Musselman averaged 30.5 yards per punt in his junior season of high school, but stepped it up, averaging 35.1 yards per punt during his senior season. While only in his first year of college, Musselman increased his average once again as he averages 41.43 yards per punt for the Dutchmen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou got to put that work in every day, every week just to keep getting better, and it\u2019s never going to stay the same.\u201d Musselman said. \u201cIt definitely is still a motivation. There\u2019s eight people ahead of you and it\u2019s a week-to-week thing\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jake Musselman and the Dutchmen will look to recover during their bye week in preparation for the school\u2019s homecoming game against Stevenson on Saturday, Oct.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dayton Stauffer \u201930, staff writer&nbsp; LVC\u2019s first-year punter is ranked ninth in all of Division III in average yards per punt.&nbsp; After senior starting punter Max Wisensale went down with a knee injury in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2026\/10\/09\/first-year-punter-ranks-9th-in-diii-in-average-punt-yards\/\" title=\"First-year punter ranks 9th in DIII in average punt yards\">[...]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-campus-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17673,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584\/revisions\/17673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}