{"id":122806,"date":"2026-01-18T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:23:11","slug":"division-ii-kicker-conor-mcaneney-signs-with-fsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122806\/","title":{"rendered":"Division II kicker Conor McAneney signs with FSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Florida State Seminoles already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomahawknation.com\/florida-state-football-fsu-seminoles-college-cfb-acc-norvell-team-roster-schedule-game\/125867\/oklahoma-state-kicker-gabe-panikowski-recruiting-commitment-transfer-portal-visit-cowboys-special-teams-kickoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:added one kicker in Oklahoma State\u2019s Gabe Panikowski;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">added one kicker in Oklahoma State\u2019s Gabe Panikowski<\/a>, but they decided two would be better than one. Kicker Conor McAneney has also decided to call Tallahassee home in 2026, officially signing with the Seminoles on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 6-foot-3, 190 pound McAneney has a fascinating background. He hails from Northern Ireland and played Gaelic football prior to attending college. This past season as a freshman at Quincy, he saw action in 11 games and made seven of 10 field goals attempts (one was blocked) with a long of 45 yards. He went 4-4 on PATs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McAneney was Quincy\u2019s kickoff specialist, averaging 60.2 yards per attempt with 16 touchbacks\u00a0on 49 total kickoffs. He will likely help with kickoffs for the Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">From his bio:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Played 11 games as placekicker and kickoff specialist at Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois, in 2025\u2026went 7-of-10 on field goal attempts with a long of 45\u2026Great Lakes Valley Conference Special Teams Player of the Week in win over William Jewell\u2026averaged 60.2 yards on 49 kickoffs, with 16 touchbacks\u2026from Plumbridge, Tyrone in Northern Ireland\u2026competed in Gaelic football at prep level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida State Seminoles already added one kicker in Oklahoma State\u2019s Gabe Panikowski, but they decided two would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61171,3731,61174,61172,5624,61173,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-122806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-conor-mcaneney","9":"tag-florida-state-seminoles","10":"tag-gabe-panikowski","11":"tag-gaelic-football","12":"tag-quincy","13":"tag-quincy-university","14":"tag-tallahassee","15":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","16":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}