Western Carolina University

Career Note: Closed his WCU career having started in 39 consecutive games, starting all 12 games in 2024, all 11 games in 2022 and 2023, and five games in 2021 before being sidelined by injury.
 
2024 (Redshirt Senior): Started all 12 games along the offensive line … Helped guide the Catamount offense to its second-straight 5,000-plus yard season, amassing a school-record 5,665 yards of total offense … Selected first-team All-Southern Conference by the league’s head coaches … Named to the Fall 2024 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Selected to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team ... Qualified for the 2025 National Football Foundation (NFF) Hampshire Honor Society for a second-straight season.

2023 (Redshirt Junior): Started all 11 games along the offensive line at center  … Helped the Catamounts to 5,545 yards of total offense … Named to the second-team All-Southern Conference by the league’s head coaches … Selected to the 2024 NFF Hampshire Honor Society ... Named to the 2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and Received a Commissioner's Medal.

2022 (Redshirt Sophomore): One of seven players to start all 11 games on the season, doing so from his offensive center position … Was one of three offensive linemen to start each game ... Helped the Catamount offense set a single-season school record of 5,339 yards of total offense … Credited with one tackle on the season coming at Georgia Tech (Sept. 10) ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2021 (Redshirt Freshman*): Started five games along the offensive line at center before an injury sidelined him for the remainder of the season ... Recovered a fumble at Gardner-Webb (Sept. 25). 

2020-21 (Redshirt Freshman): Played in two games on the season as a reserve along the offensive line and on special teams … Did not record any official statistics ... Named to the 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2019 (Freshman): Played in four games on the season as a reserve along the offensive line and on special teams, remaining eligible for a redshirt … Made his collegiate debut at home against Gardner-Webb (Oct. 5).

Prior to Western Carolina: Joined the Catamount football team as a preferred walk-on … Played center, guard, and long-snapper as a prep … Was named All-Cap-7 Conference along the offensive line as a senior ... High school coach was Clarence Inscore.

Personal: Is the son of Tina and Barry Whitmore.