Post by The Cats on Aug 7, 2019 4:50:20 GMT -5
It's now 24 days until the kickoff of Catamount football on Saturday, August 31, 2019, against the Mercer Bears, in E.J. Whitmire Stadium, Cullowhee, NC
To help pass those long summer days, and hopefully get the Catamount faithful more excited about the upcoming season, and knowledgeable of the team members, we'll continue the 100-day football countdown each day until kickoff day.
Today we'll highlight a defensive back
#24 Shamon Elliott
Class: Senior
Hometown: Fayetteville, NC
High School: Terry Samford HS
Height / Weight: 6-0 / 190
Position: Defensive Back
Notes: Enters his senior season with 79 career tackles including 58 solo stops with three career interceptions.
2018 (Junior): Played in nine of the team’s 11 games with three starts in the defensive secondary, each coming in the first three games of the season … Finished the year with 23 total tackles including 17 solo stops and two tackles for loss … Credited with five pass break-ups including three against Newberry (Sept. 1) … Including 10 solo stops, posted a career-best 12 tackles with a PBU against VMI (Sept. 22) … Missed back-to-back games against Furman (Sept. 29) and at Samford (Oct. 6) with a lower-body injury.
2017 (Sophomore): Played in all 12 of the team's games making six starts in the WCU defensive secondary ... Finished with 24 tackles including 19 solo stops ... Tallied three pass break-ups ... Recorded three interceptions including two in the home-opening win over Davidson (Sept. 9) in addition to three tackles ... Intercepted a pass and broke up a pass to go along with two tackles in the road win at VMI (Oct. 21) ... Posted a season-high six tackles with five solo stops against Mercer (Nov. 11).
2016 (Freshman): Appeared in seven games with four starts in the defensive secondary ... Saw his first collegiate action in the home win over Gardner-Webb (Sept. 10) where he recorded his first tackle, with his first start coming at Mercer (Oct. 15) ... Finished the year with 32 total tackles including 22 solo stops and one tackle for loss ... Tallied one pass break-up and one quarterback hurry on a blitz, both coming at Samford (Oct. 22) where he recorded 11 tackles - a mark which stood as his career-high until his junior season ... Credited with five tackles including a pair of tackles for loss and two sacks during WCU's annual Spring Game.
Prior to Western Carolina: Recorded 119 tackles in 2015 - 10th in the Cape Fear region - as a senior ... Added four interceptions and scored a pair of touchdowns in his final season as a prep ... Was a first-team All-Cape Fear Valley Conference selection as a senior ... Named second-team defense on the 2015 Fayetteville Observer All-Cape Fear Region team ... Helped lead his high school team to back-to-back conference championships and into the third round of the state playoffs in his final two seasons ... High school coach was Bryan Till ... Also played basketball at Terry Sanford HS, helping guide his squad to a North Carolina 3-A boy's state championship in 2015 as a junior - the first for the program in 50 years.
Personal: Full name is Shamon Jerome Elliott ... Is the son of Calvin and Kathryn Elliott ... Has two younger siblings, Imani Elliott and Jah'mez Autry.
Career-Highs:
Tackles: 12, VMI (9/22/18)
Pass Break-Ups: 3, NEWBERRY (9/1/18)
Courtesy WCU Athletics Media Relations
