10 Facts About Robby Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on February 7,1976 and is an American former college football player who was a punter and placekicker for the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida.

Robby Stevenson was born in Bradenton, Florida, and grew up playing soccer.

Robby Stevenson attended Manatee High School in Bradenton, and was the starting placekicker and punter for the Manatee Hurricanes high school football team from 1992 to 1994.

The Hurricanes won the Florida Class 5A state football championship in 1992, in which Robby Stevenson kicked a 47-yard field goal, and returned to the state final again in 1993.

Ironically, Robby Stevenson wanted to play quarterback, but the Hurricanes needed a kicker more, and as a lifetime soccer player, he filled the need.

Robby Stevenson accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1995 to 1997.

Robby Stevenson earned the starting punter position as a true freshman in 1995, and served as the Gators' primary punter through the end of his junior season in 1997.

Robby Stevenson was criticized by some commentators for his inconsistency, as evidenced by delivering short kicks in lopsided victories but long punts in pressure situations when they mattered most.

Robby Stevenson proved to be a weapon on kickoffs, with twenty-one of seventy-one kickoffs resulting in touchbacks, and over half of his kickoffs reaching the opposing goal line or beyond.

Robby Stevenson graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in health and human performance in 2001.