Queen’s University kicker Tyler Mullan has been named this year\u2019s winner of the Mitchell-Avery Award for his contribution and success in football.<\/p>\n
The Mike Mitchell-Larry Avery Memorial Award is a football award recognizing individuals for their outstanding contribution, dedication, and success in the sport. Often awarded to local talent involved in high school (NDA), university, or senior football, it honours the legacy of locals Mike Mitchell and Larry Avery.<\/p>\n
Mullan began his kicking career at Widdifield Secondary School before transferring to St. Joseph- Scollard Hall in Grade 10. He was the Junior and Senior Bears\u2019 kicker until he graduated in the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n
Mullan made his debut with Queen’s against U of T, kicking 4 field goals and 5 extra points as Queen’s defeated Toronto 47-25. Mullan would finish his rookie season with a perfect 17 for 17 on field goal attempts and 32 for 32 in point after attempts. Mullan finished third\u00a0in scoring in USports\u00a0Football with 83 points.<\/p>\n
Following Mullan\u2019s 2022 season, he was named an OUA All-Star, named to the OUA All-Rookie Team, and named First Team All-Canadian. Queen\u2019s Athletics also awarded Mullan with the Alfie Pierce Trophy, which is awarded to the Varsity Rookie Male Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n
In 2023-24, Mullan hit 11 field goals in 14 attempts, with his longest at 41 yards, and in 2025, he hit 10 of 13 field goals with his longest at 45 yards.<\/p>\n
This past season, Mullan continued to shine as one of the top kickers in Canadian University Football. Mullan was 2 for 2 kicking field goals and 4 for 4 on converts, helping Queen’s defeat Windsor to reach the Yates Cup. In the 117 th Yates Cup, the Queen’s Gaels defeated the number 1-ranked Laurier Golden Hawks 30-27. Mullan contributed with 3 field goals from 35, 37, and 46 yards, as well as 3 converts, good for 12 points.<\/p>\n
Overall, Mullan finished his 4th\u00a0season with Queen’s 25\/31 in field goals and 47\/47 in extra points, good for the second-highest percentage in the OUA and USports (Nationally).<\/p>\n
His 85 regular-season\u00a0point total was third highest in the OUA and USports.<\/p>\n
Also, his 85 points scored were the fourth highest in school history. His 297 career regular-season points put him second all-time in Queen\u2019s history, just 37 points shy of the school record.<\/p>\n
In his 4 years at Queen’s, Mullan kicked 54\/63 field goals for 86% and was a perfect 126\/126 in conversion attempts during regular season play.<\/p>\n
Mullan will return to Queen’s in the fall with an eye on breaking the school record.<\/p>\n
Mullan will be presented with the award at the 45th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner on Saturday, May 2, at the Davedi Club. Tickets can be purchased through Larry Tougas at 705-303-8104. Tickets are also available at the Davedi Club by calling 705-474-4190.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen’s University kicker Tyler Mullan has been named this year\u2019s winner of the Mitchell-Avery Award for his contribution…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-180215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}