2026 UConn Football Commit - Tommy Warner (Melbourne, Australia)

[huskymedic]

Tommy Warner is a 6-4 200lb Punter from Melbourne Australia attending Northwest Missouri State. Transfer Portal w/ three years of eligibility remaining.

Tommy Warner - 2025 - Football - Northwest Missouri State Athletics

Tommy Warner (49) P - 2025 Honorable Mention all-MIAA pick at punter ... Led the team with 47 punts for 1,887 yards… Recorded a season-long punt of 57 yards against

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[UConnDan97]

Welcome to the Dog Pound, Tommy!!!

 

[Waquoit]

I love me some Australian punters!

 

[DoctorWho85]

Australian punter? He's gonna be kicking some cannon balls.

Welcome to the pound dawg

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Fair dinkum, Melburnian mate

 

[Husky68]

I lived in Melbourne for a couple years in 1980's, near VFL park. There were some seriously big guys playing Australian rules football and they could really directional punt between the goal posts from way far away.

 

[ArtTheFan]

Tommy, we might invite you for a Barbie, bring the shrimp!! 😀

Welcome, Tommy, to the Dog Pound...

 

[uchusky32]

Welcome to the Pound, Tommy!

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Jacob Furphy to provide Tasman prawns.

 

[huskymedic]

-> Tommy Warner got off his plane in Connecticut last week and, as far as his eyes could see, was all the evidence he was not in Australia anymore.

“It was snow everywhere,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it. It was just white. It can get cold in Australia, but we don’t really live in snow.” <-

-> “But the way we kick it, end over end, it’s accurate, reliable, we can actually put it anywhere we want. Especially if we’re closer in, like a ‘pooch’ punt. Most of the time we should be able to get it inside the 10 because we just have that natural touch where we know where the ball is going to land, because our whole life we’ve been kicking to targets.”

UConn got in on the trend because new special teams coach Pat Cashmore had seen Warner punt five times for a 46.2 yard average, including a 50-yarder and two downed inside the 20, for Division II Northwest Missouri State late last season in Kansas City, Kan. “Coach Cashmore was actually watching in the stands because he used to coach Pittsburg State (the opponent) and he said I stood out.'” <-

-> Warner’s family has owned a nursery — raising plants and trees for 112 years and four generations — outside Melbourne. He’s 21, with three years eligibility, and will major in environmental studies at UConn, to bring expertise to the family business one day. And yes, the UConn brand did have reach in Australia.

“I did know about UConn, their logo always stood out to me, I thought it was one of the cool ones,” Warner said. “When I found out UConn was interested, I was ecstatic, because I did know about them and I knew it was really a fantastic school.” <-

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi​

 

[Palatine]

Not a mention of Adam Coles, the 6'-6" Aussie punter who played for us during the transition to 1A. Adam also played Australian Rules football in his native land. He held some UConn records (he still may).

So much for the "new" trend.

 

[Kolumbo]

The ultimate triple threat

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Not a mention of Adam Coles, the 6'-6" Aussie punter who played for us during the transition to 1A. Adam also played Australian Rules football in his native land. He held some UConn records (he still may).

Of course, @huskymedic previously mentioned UConn’s 2 prior Aussie punters, Coles and plumber Luke Magliozzi, in a Tommy Warner 2026 Recruiting commitment thread.

 

[Kolumbo]

good stuff

 

[Waquoit]

Of course, @huskymedic previously mentioned UConn’s 2 prior Aussie punters, Coles and plumber Luke Magliozzi, in a Tommy Warner 2026 Recruiting commitment thread.

So did I! Indirectly. Anyway, I think the lede was buried here. What about this nugget? "I did know about UConn, their logo always stood out to me, I thought it was one of the cool ones"