Meet Kansas’ Nick Bartolotta, the best 5-foot-6 kicker in the country

Oct 18, 2015 1227

By Rustin Dodd


The the most vertically-challenged kicker in college football spent last year taking coursework at a community college in St. Louis. He was not a member of any football team then — college or otherwise — and if you saw Nick Bartolotta strolling into a class at St. Louis Community College, you probably wouldn't have guessed it, either.

The shortest kid in the class is a Division I prospect? No way. On a good day, with the benefit of football cleats, Bartolotta measures in at a solid 5 feet 6. His Kansas teammates call him "Yoda" — at once a reference to his small stature and the final five letters of his Italian surname. His height, as you might presume, has been a lifelong curiosity — and something of a liability.

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Source: http://www.kansascity.com/y

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