2022 Football Roster
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Mendes, Charlie

Jersey Number 99
Charlie Mendes
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 198
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Van Nuys, California
- High School:
- Harvard-Westlake
Bio
Honors at Rice
2021
2020
Earned Conference USA All-Freshman honors after averaging 42.8 yards on 21 punts and placing nine of them inside the 20 with only one touchback... Placed two of four punts at Marshall inside the 20 and has seven of 14 on the season... Both punts inside the 20 against The Herd came in the third quarter, pinning them at their 11 and 12 on two of their possessions... Placed two of three punts at Southern Miss inside the 20 and blasted the third 54 yards to flip the field... Averaged 45.3 (net of 42.7) on three punts in his collegiate debut... Blasted a 58-yard effort on his first collegiate attempt.
2019
A member of Mike Bloomgren's second recruiting class who walked on in 2019 and redshirted in his first season.
Harvard-Westlake High School
First-team, all-league as a junior for coach Michael Burnett… Only began playing football as a junior after three seasons of soccer… Ranked as the 35th best punter in the class of 2019 by Chris Sailer… Converted 18 of 19 PATs as a senior… Dean’s List… Student Ambassador program co-chairman… Peer Support leader.
Personal
Full name: Charlie Mendes... Born: August 17 at Beverly Hills, California... Parents: Fred and Donna Mendes... One sister… Rice major: Materials Science & NanoEngineering... Rice College: Brown
- C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medal (2020, 2021, 2022)
- C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Conference USA All-Freshman 2020
2021
Averaged 42.6 yards on 60 punts... Placed 17 inside the 20, including a season-high four at UTEP (six total punts)... Dropped all three punts vs. North Texas inside the 10, two of them at the 4... Punted a career-high 10 times at UTSA and averaged a career-best 47.8 per punt…. 10 punts were the most by an Owl since Jack Fox tied the school record with 12 punts vs. UAB in 2018... Blasted the two longest punts of his career (66 & 64 yards) vs. the Roadrunners had at least one punt of better than 50 yards in seven of 12 games.
2020
Earned Conference USA All-Freshman honors after averaging 42.8 yards on 21 punts and placing nine of them inside the 20 with only one touchback... Placed two of four punts at Marshall inside the 20 and has seven of 14 on the season... Both punts inside the 20 against The Herd came in the third quarter, pinning them at their 11 and 12 on two of their possessions... Placed two of three punts at Southern Miss inside the 20 and blasted the third 54 yards to flip the field... Averaged 45.3 (net of 42.7) on three punts in his collegiate debut... Blasted a 58-yard effort on his first collegiate attempt.
2019
A member of Mike Bloomgren's second recruiting class who walked on in 2019 and redshirted in his first season.
Harvard-Westlake High School
First-team, all-league as a junior for coach Michael Burnett… Only began playing football as a junior after three seasons of soccer… Ranked as the 35th best punter in the class of 2019 by Chris Sailer… Converted 18 of 19 PATs as a senior… Dean’s List… Student Ambassador program co-chairman… Peer Support leader.
Personal
Full name: Charlie Mendes... Born: August 17 at Beverly Hills, California... Parents: Fred and Donna Mendes... One sister… Rice major: Materials Science & NanoEngineering... Rice College: Brown
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