Andre Szmyt will stick with his long-term plan. The Vernon Hills graduate is coming off another outstanding season kicking for Syracuse (1-10), which lost its final eight games. Szmyt, a redshirt j… ...

Andre Szmyt, a longtime soccer player, joined the Vernon Hills football team for one season as a senior in 2016. That decision eventually led him to a spot on the Syracuse football team, where he ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Four years ago, Syracuse place-kicker Andre Szmyt was playing soccer at his high school in the northern Chicago suburbs, not even on the radar of the school's football coach.

Andre Szmyt’s improbable rise to notoriety started on a whim. Less than three years ago, Szmyt was a standout soccer player at Vernon Hills. He had never played football, but on a Sunday during ...

According to Chicagobears.com senior writer Larry Mayer, the Bears hosted former Syracuse kicker Andre Szmyt — a Vernon Hills, Illinois, native — at their local pro day on Thursday, April 13 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Andre Szmyt keeps his Lou Groza Award in his Illinois bedroom. Every time he returns home, the award reminds the Syracuse football kicker of the standard he set as a redshirt ...

Szmyt, who also handles kickoffs, is nine of 10 on field goals this season, including another 50-yarder. His lone miss was a 41-yard attempt against Purdue in a game the Orange won 32-29 on their ...

Andre Szmyt will live the dream, even though the Vernon Hills senior never had it. Not until recently, maybe. "Our linebacker, Andrew Smith, he's like, 'Live my dream for me,' " Szmyt said.

-- Before Andre Szmyt trotted onto Waldo Stadium to kick an extra point in Syracuse football's season opener at Western Michigan on Aug. 31, he was a complete unknown outside the program.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Four years ago, Syracuse place-kicker Andre Szmyt was playing soccer at his high school in the northern Chicago suburbs, not even on the radar of the school's football coach.