Arizona kicker Max Zendejas, right, and Craig Schiller watch the ball after Zendejas' kick sailed through the uprights for the win against ASU on Nov. 26, 1983. Photo by Emmett Jordan / Arizona Daily Star

Name: Max Zendejas 

Years at UA: 1982-85

Accomplishments: Zendejas was a second-team All-American selection in 1985 and was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame in 1999. He was the MVP of the 1985 Sun Bowl. 

Zendejas also ranks in the top 10 in UA history in the following categories: 

• Career points scored: 1st, 360 points 

• Career field goals: 1st, 79 made (out of 107 attempts) 

• Career field goal attempts: 1st, 107 attempts 

• Career field goal percentage: 2nd, 73.8 percent

• Most consecutive games kicking field goal in a career: 1st, 18 games 

• Most field goals made 50 yards or more in a career: 1st, 13 field goals 

• Most games kicking three or more field goals in a career: 1st, 12 games 

• Most games kicking field goal in a career: 1st, 38 games 

• Career PATs: 1st, 123 made (out of 125 attempts) 

• Career PAT attempts: 1st, 125 attempts 

• Career points scored by kicking: 1st, 360 points 

• Single-season field goals: 2nd, 22 made (out of 29 attempts in 1985); also 4th, 21 made (out of 27 attempts in 1984)

• Single-season field goal attempts: 1st, 29 attempts (1985)

• Single-season field goal percentage: 2nd, 80.0 percent (1983)

• Most consecutive field goals made: 1st, 11 field goals 

• Most consecutive games kicking field goal in a single season: Tied for 1st, 11 games 

• Most field goals made 50 yards or more in a single season: 1st, five field goals (1984)

• Most games kicking three or more field goals in a single season: Tied for 1st — Zendejas had two seasons (1984, 1985) in which he had four games with three or more field goals

• Most games kicking field goal in a season: Tied for 1st, 11 games (1983)

• Longest field goal: Tied for 1st, 57 yards (against Arizona State in 1985); also tied for 4th — Zendejas nailed a 54-yard field goal on two separate occasions (against Colorado in 1985 and against Washington in 1983); also tied for 8th — Zendejas nailed a 53-yard field goal on two separate occasions as well (against Fresno State in 1984 and against UCLA in 1983)

• Single-season points scored: 9th, 99 points (1983)

• Single-game field goals: Tied for 1st — Zendejas made four field goals in a game on three separate occasions) 

• Most field goals made 50 yards or more in a single game: 1st, two field goals (against UCLA in 1983)


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