Monte Green-Avery

Position:
Wide Receiver
Height:
6-1
Weight:
185
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Cuero, Texas
High School:
Cuero HS

Green-Avery ended spring training as the backup at wide receiver to returning starter Cedric Gilbert.

2014 (Junior): Played in all 12 games with two starts (at Troy and at Houston Baptist) during the season, finishing with 15 catches for 251 yards and two touchdowns, including a 65-yard touchdown catch from wide receiver Cade Stone on Oct. 4 in ACU’s 24-21 loss to Lamar. Green-Avery’s other touchdown catch on the season was a 12-yard pass from Parker McKenzie at Troy (Sept. 13) that was the first score of the game.

2013 (Sophomore): Played in 10 games for the Wildcats, finishing the season with four catches for 97 yards and no touchdowns. His biggest play of the season came on Oct. 26 when he caught a 59-yard tipped pass from John David Baker against New Mexico State and then lateraled it off to Taylor Gabriel on the final play of the game. Gabriel was knocked out of bounds at the 6-yard line on the Wildcats’ last-gasp Hail Mary, falling to the Aggies, 34-29.

2012 (Redshirt freshman): Played in one game (Oct. 6 vs. Eastern New Mexico), but didn’t compile any statistics.

2011 (Freshman): Redshirt.

High school: Three-year letterman at wide receiver and defensive back for teams with records of 11-2 as soph, 13-1 as junior and 9-3 as senior last fall. Career statistics include 66 catches for 1,039 yards and 12 TDs along with 92 tackles, 11 pass breakups and three INTs. He was first team all-district at WR as senior and first team all-district at DB as junior. Also competed in basketball with all-district honors and track and field as sprinter with 10.6 in 100 meters. Freshman letterman on 2008 Class 3A state champs in track and field. Finished third at state meet in long jump in 2010 at 22-7.75.

Personal: Son of Dawn Green. Cousin Robert Armstrong played wide receiver at Texas A&M-Kingsville. 2011 graduate of Cuero High School. Born 18 April 1993.