Career Honors
• First team pre-season all-Southland Conference, 2017
• First team all-Southland Conference, 2016
• Second team pre-season all-Southland Conference, 2015
• Honorable mention all-Southland Conference, 2014
Grau returns for his senior season with a chance to finish as ACU’s all-time leader in field goals made and second in career PATs made and attempted and in career kicking points. ... He enters the season fourth in ACU history with 37 field goals (Morgan Lineberry is the all-time leader with 50), and he's third in PATs (124) and attempted (130) behind Matt Adams (213 for 222) and Lineberry (140 for 154). ... He's third in career kicking points with 235 (Adams with 339 and Lineberry with 290 are first and second, respectively), and he's sixth in all-time scoring with those 235 points.
Junior (2016): First team All-Southland Conference after connecting on 13 of 14 field goals and all 21 PATs. … Scored 60 points on the season. … Had a season-long field goal of 44 yards against Incarnate Word, and had four other field goals of at least 40 yards. … Ended the season by hitting his last 10 field goals straight.
2015 (Junior): He nursed a back injury throughout summer camp in 2015, but it flared up on him after his only made PAT and a missed FG attempt, and he underwent season-ending surgery a few weeks after the season-opening loss at Fresno State. Should be healthy and ready to go for the 2016 season.
2014 (Sophomore): Grau was very solid again as a sophomore, connecting on 14 of 17 field goals and 46 of 47 PATs. His only PAT miss of the season came in the season finale against Stephen F. Austin State on Nov. 15. Prior to that miss, Grau had made 46 straight PATs on the season (he missed his last PAT of the 2013 season against Prairie View A&M). Dating back to the Wildcats’ last two games of the 2013 season, Grau enters the 2015 season having hit 58 of his last 60 PATs. He had a career-best 13 kicking points in the Wildcats’ season-opening loss at Georgia State as he hit all three of his field goal attempts and all four PATs. One of his field goals that night in the Georgia Dome was a career-best 42 yards. He also scored 12 points against Ave Maria on Oct. 11 (6 for 6 on PATs and 2 for 2 on field goals). He scored 11 points against Stephen F. Austin, including kicking the first game-winning field goal of his career. Grau drilled a 31-yard field goal with 5:48 to play, and those three points were the deciding factor in ACU’s 37-35 win over the playoff-bound Lumberjacks. He was voted the Southland Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance in the win over SFA. His 14 field goals in 2014 are the second-most in a season in ACU history behind the 21 field goals posted by Morgan Lineberry in 2010, and his 88 kicking points are the fourth-most in a single season in ACU history, just ahead of the 86 he scored last season. Grau also serves as the Wildcats’ kickoff specialist, finishing the season with 66 kickoffs, eight of which were touchbacks and one that went out
of bounds.
2013 (Freshman): Scored 86 points on 10 field goals and 56 extra points. Recorded a season-high 11 points with a 29-yard field goal and eight PAT’s in season-finale victory at Prairie View A&M. Finished the year 10-for-11 on field goal attempts with a long of 38 yards vs. Incarnate Word. Made 56 of 62 PATs, including 10-of-12 in season-opening win vs. Concordia (Ala.). Didn’t miss another extra point until Oct. 19 game vs. UIW, during which he missed one of four. Missed another two extra points in five-point loss at New Mexico State. Lone field goal miss was against New Mexico Highlands. Didn’t have any kicks blocked. Recorded 82 kickoffs, 24 of which were touchbacks and two that went out of bounds.
High school: As a senior in 2012, he hit 11 of 13 field goals, including a career-best 52-yarder against L.D. Bell in a late September game. As a senior he was a first team all-District 6-5A selection as both a punter and placekicker. As a junior in 2011, he hit 8 of 12 field goals, including a long kick of 45 yards. He was the first team all-District 6-5A placekicker. Also played soccer at Grapevine where he was a two-time all-district forward. He scored 15 goals as a junior in 2012.
Personal: Son of Ray and Yvette Grau. 2013 graduate of Grapevine High School. Born 23 August 1994.
