Alex Mastromanno
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| Position | Punter |
| Class | Redshirt Senior |
| Personal information | |
| Born | Melbourne, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 243 lb (110 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Brighton Grammar School (Melbourne, Australia) |
| College | Florida State (2020–2024) |
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Alex Mastromanno is an Australian American football punter for the Florida State Seminoles.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Mastromanno is from Melbourne, Australia.[1] He grew up playing Australian rules football, which he started at age three or four.[2] He also competed in tennis and track and field growing up.[3] He played for Old Brighton Grammarians Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) and was a nominee for the league's rising star award in 2017.[4] He also played for the Collingwood reserve side in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[5]
Mastromanno later became interested in American football and joined Nathan Chapman's ProKick Australia academy.[6] Recruited to play college football in the U.S. as a punter, he was ranked a two-star prospect by 247Sports and committed to the Florida State Seminoles (FSU) in December 2019.[7]
College career
[edit | edit source]Mastromanno served as Florida State's main punter as a freshman in 2020, recording an average of 43.5 yards per punt which ranked seventh in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and 33rd nationally.[8] He remained the starter in 2021, playing in 12 games and being chosen fourth-team All-ACC and FSU's special teams MVP after averaging 42.7 yards per punt with 18 punts inside the 20 and a long of 65 yards.[9] In 2022, he punted 34 times with an average of 41.8 yards per punt, having a long of 53 and five punts of over 50 yards.[6]
In 2023, Mastromanno averaged 45.5 yards per punt, placing second in the ACC and 15th nationally.[10] He was named second-team All-ACC, second-team All-American and a finalist for the Ray Guy Award for best punter nationally, being FSU's first-ever finalist for the award.[3][10] He returned for a final season in 2024 and broke the ACC record and ranked first nationally with an average of 49.3 yards per punt, being named first-team All-ACC and a finalist for the Ray Guy Award.[11] He was also named a first-team All-American.[12]
Professional career
[edit | edit source]| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft 1+3⁄4 in (1.87 m) |
243 lb (110 kg) |
31+1⁄4 in (0.79 m) |
8+5⁄8 in (0.22 m) | |||||||||
| All values from Pro Day[13] | ||||||||||||
Mastromanno went unselected in the 2025 NFL draft.
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