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2019 Football

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30 Karekin Brooks

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Marietta, Ga.
  • Highschool George Walton

Biography

Career Accolades: 2016 Ivy League champion ... 2018 Second Team All-Ivy ... 2017 Honorable Mention All-Ivy ... Set Penn's single-season yards-per-carry records in 2017 (6.7) … 2019 First Team All-Ivy … Third in program history with 2,847 career rushing yards … Sixth in program history with 26 career rushing TDs … Second in program history with 5.5 yards-per-carry.

2019: Team captain … First Team All-Ivy … Stats FCS National Offensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention on 9/30 … Stats FCS National Offensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention on 10/14 … Led the Ivy League with 1,003 rushing yards … Led the Ivy League with 111.4 rushing yards per game … Had 203 total carries … Had eight rushing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown … Rushed for 158 yards and added three catches for 20 yards at Delaware (9/21) … Rushed for 202 yards and two touchdowns at Lafayette (9/28) … Rushed for 91 yards with two touchdowns and added 10 catches for 31 yards against Dartmouth (10/04) … Rushed for 178 yards and three touchdowns and added a receiving touchdown versus Sacred Heart (10/12) … Rushed for 72 yards and a touchdown at Yale (10/26) … Rushed for 102 yards and added two catches for 25 yards at Harvard (11/16) … Rushed for 95 yards and added six catches for 62 yards against Princeton (11/23).
 
2018: Second-team All-Ivy … Second in the Ivy League with 898 rushing yards … Had 167 total carries … Averaged 89.8 yards per game and 5.4 yards per carry … Finished with eight rushing touchdowns … Caught 21 passes for 211 yards … Ran 22 times for 72 yards and two touchdowns against Bucknell (9/15) … Gained 163 yards on 16 carries with three touchdowns against Lehigh (9/22) … Ran for 41 yards and a touchdown at Dartmouth (9/29) … Ran for 191 yards on 28 attempts with one touchdown at Sacred Heart (10/6) … Finished with 212 all-purpose yards at Sacred Heart … Ran for 68 yards and caught four passes for 65 yards against Columbia (10/13) … Ran 34 times for 246 yards in the rain at Brown (10/27) … 246 yards gained were No. 6 all-time in a single game by a Quaker … Earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors for his efforts at Brown … Rushed for 71 yards and a touchdown at Cornell (11/2) … Caught seven passes for 45 yards at Princeton (11/17).

2017: Honorable Mention All-Ivy … Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week (9/25) … Appeared in all 10 games, making nine starts … Ranked No. 2 in the Ivy League and No. 4 in FCS in rushing yards-per-carry (6.7) … Set Penn single-season record for yard-per-carry … Ranked No. 2 in the Ivy League and No. 33 in FCS in rushing yards (840) … Ranked No. 2 in the Ivy League and No. 25 in FCS in rushing yards-per-game (84.0) … Ranked No. 3 in the Ivy League and No. 33 in FCS in rushing touchdowns (9) … Gained 142 yards on 10 carries with two touchdowns against Ohio Dominican (9/16) … Finished with 268 yards – No. 2 in a game all-time by a Penn player and most since 1993 – on 29 carries at Lehigh (9/23) … Had three touchdowns on the ground and threw for one more against Lehigh … Ran for 86 yards on 13 carries at Central Connecticut (10/7) … Ran for 43 yards and a touchdown at Columbia (10/14) … Ran for a touchdown against Princeton (11/4) … Rushed for 146 yards on 17 carries with two touchdowns against Cornell (11/18).

2016: Appeared in seven games … Finished with 21 carries for 106 yards and one touchdown … Rushed two times for 18 yards against Dartmouth (9/30) … Rushed one time for 11 yards against Columbia (10/15) … Had 10 rushes for 45 yards and a touchdown at Yale (10/21) … Carried seven times for 33 yards at Princeton (11/5).

George Walton: Four-year letterwinner … Served as team captain … Named first-team All-Region in 2015 … Named first-team All-County in 2015 … Named second-team All-Region and All-County in 2014 … Also lettered twice in baseball.

Personal: Son of Rhonda Knight and Willie Brooks … Has five brothers … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Historical Player Information

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    2016Freshman

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    2017Sophomore

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    2018Junior

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    2019Senior

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