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| Position | Punter |
| Class | Redshirt Senior |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 243 lb (110 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | Florida State (2020–2024) |
| High school | Brighton Grammar School (Melbourne, Australia) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Alex Mastromanno is an Australian American football punter for the Florida State Seminoles.
Mastromanno is from Melbourne, Australia. [1] He grew up playing Australian rules football, which he started at age three or four. [2] He also competed in tennis and track and field growing up. [3] He played for Old Brighton Grammarians Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) and was a nominee for the league's rising star award in 2017. [4] He also played for the Collingwood reserve side in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [5]
Mastromanno later became interested in American football and joined Nathan Chapman's ProKick Australia academy. [6] Recruited to play college football in the U.S. as a punter, he was ranked a two-star prospect by 247Sports and committed to the Florida State Seminoles (FSU) in December 2019. [7]
Mastromanno served as Florida State's main punter as a freshman in 2020, recording an average of 43.5 yards per punt which ranked seventh in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and 33rd nationally. [8] He remained the starter in 2021, playing in 12 games and being chosen fourth-team All-ACC and FSU's special teams MVP after averaging 42.7 yards per punt with 18 punts inside the 20 and a long of 65 yards. [9] In 2022, he punted 34 times with an average of 41.8 yards per punt, having a long of 53 and five punts of over 50 yards. [6]
In 2023, Mastromanno averaged 45.5 yards per punt, placing second in the ACC and 15th nationally. [10] He was named second-team All-ACC, second-team All-American and a finalist for the Ray Guy Award for best punter nationally, being FSU's first-ever finalist for the award. [3] [10] He returned for a final season in 2024 and broke the ACC record and ranked first nationally with an average of 49.3 yards per punt, being named first-team All-ACC and a finalist for the Ray Guy Award. [11] He was also named a first-team All-American. [12]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | |||||||||
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| 6 ft 1+3⁄4 in (1.87 m) | 243 lb (110 kg) | 31+1⁄4 in (0.79 m) | 8+5⁄8 in (0.22 m) | |||||||||
| All values from Pro Day [13] | ||||||||||||
Mastromanno went unselected in the 2025 NFL draft.