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2012 Football Roster

Matt Strasen

27 Pat Gardner

  • Position Safety
  • Ht./Wt. 6-1 / 207
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Kingwood, Texas
  • Prev School Kingwood HS
  • Major Marketing

Biography
The Gardner File
Parents: Tom Gardner and Tracy Monk
Birthday: Aug. 9, 1989
Major: Marketing and Accounting
Honors
Daktronics All-Super Region 4
2011 (1st)
All-Lone Star Conference
2011 (1st), 2012 (HM)
LSC Defensive Player of the Week (1 time)
10/3/11
LSC Special Teams Player of the Week (1 time)
10/5/09
Statistics
2012
2011
2010
2009
Career Stats
At Midwestern State

Senior (2012)
- started the nine games he played in at Whip for the Mustangs.
- missed two games with an injury.
- ranked sixth on the team with 40 total tackles (4.4 per game) with 26 solo stops.
- collected his only interception of the season with a 43-yard return to set up a touchdown in the Mustangs nationally-televised win over Texas A&M-Commerce at Cowboys Stadium on Sep. 13, 2012.
- recovered a third quarter fumble at No. 18 West Alabama on Oct. 4, 2012 that set up MSU's go-ahead touchdown.
- posted a season-high 12 tackles (team's second highest total) on Nov. 17 at No. 18 Indianapolis in MSU's NCAA Division II playoff game.

Junior (2011)
-started all 11 games at Whip for the Mustangs.
-named first team Daktronics All-Super Region 4 at safety.
-earned first team All-Lone Star Conference at safety.
-led team in solo tackles with 38 and second on squad in total tackles with 56, including 1.5 tackles for loss (-2 yards).
-forced and recovered one fumble.
-second on the team with six pass breakups.
-named Lone Star Conference Defensive Player of the Week after collecting six tackles including a tackle for loss when he left the game after three quarters in MSU's 45-14 win over Incarnate Word on Oct. 1.
-collected a career-high 14 tackles, including eight solo stops, in the NCAA II second round loss to Northwest Missouri State.

Sophomore (2010)
-played in six games while making one start at the free safety position.
-finished season with 19 tackles including nine solo stops while forcing a fumble and recording a pass breakup.
-made season-high five tackles in only start of the season against Incarnate Word on Oct. 2, 2010.
-logged four tackles in three games including at New Mexico Highlands, at Eastern New Mexico and at Central Oklahoma.
-credited with a forced fumble at New Mexico Highlands on Sep. 2, 2010.

Redshirt Freshman (2009)
-played in 10 games as a reserve safety.
-finished season with 24 tackles including four for loss and one sack to go along with four pass breakups and two blocked kicks.
-named LSC South Special Teams Player of the Week after blocking a punt and making five tackles in a 31-19 win over West Texas A&M on Oct. 3 at Memorial Stadium.
-tallied season-five tackles on Oct. 3 against West Texas A&M then matched it on Oct. 31 at Eastern New Mexico.
-recorded blocked punts in consecutive games against Northeastern State and West Texas A&M.
-sacked Central Oklahoma quarterback Brandon Noohi for an 11-yard loss on Oct. 24.

Freshman (2008)
-served redshirt season.


Kingwood High School

-a two-time All-District 21-5A first-teamer as a junior and senior in 2006 and 2007 as a linebacker at Kingwood High School.

Statistics

Season:
2012

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2008Freshman

    Safety
    6'1" 205 lbs
  • 27

    2009Redshirt Freshman

    Safety
    6'1" 205 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2010Sophomore

    Safety
    6'1" 205 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2011Junior

    Safety
    6'1" 207 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2012Senior

    Safety
    6'1" 207 lbs
    27