Jonah Schmidt: MU Punter?

■ @JonahSchmidt25 (twitter): I'm actually going to try to walk on the football team because I have one semester left

■ @BlumbergOTB (twitter): #Mizzou baseball player @JonahSchmidt25 is going to try out (punter) for the football team soon.

■ Well, he's not a swimmer/diver, but I guess he'll do... (RockMNation.com)

■ Here's the kicker (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 21, 2007)

Jonah Schmidt's college decision wasn't easy.

Should the Chaminade senior two-sport standout go to the University of Missouri, where his father pitched in the late 1970s, to play baseball and possibly walk on to the football team as a punter in a couple years?

Or should he go to Ohio State to play baseball for his father's former college coach, Bob Todd, with the possibility of being the Buckeyes' punter and playing in the Horseshoe in front of 100,000 fans in a few years?

"I've always loved baseball since day one when I was little," Schmidt said, "but I was getting more interest for football."
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Schmidt is a two-time Post-Dispatch All-Metro first-team selection in football as a punter. He averaged 41.4 yards per punt as a junior, then 43.4 yards per punt as a senior, when he also kicked three field goals.

As Chaminade's quarterback, he threw for 1,512 yards and 14 touchdowns and rushed for 149 yards and five touchdowns. He led Chaminade to a 7-3 record and second-place finish in the Metro Catholic Conference.

Jonah was also a pitcher at Chaminade