Taking A Punt: The Dane Roy Story

Taking A Punt: The Dane Roy Story

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Taking A Punt: The Dane Roy Story episodes

  • A New Dawn

    Another new coach at the University of Houston as Dana Holgorsen arrives and shakes things up inside the Cougars' football department, while Dane battles off the field, struggling with the life of a long-term international student, away from family and friends.

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    44 min
  • Defense Wins Championships

    On the eve of the 2018 College Football season, a number of Houston Cougars are featured on award watchlists, including Ed Oliver, d'Eriq King, and, for the first time, Dane Roy. With such an immensely talented squad, the Cougars are expecting success.

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    40 min
  • Thinking Out Loud

    The 2017 season ended with a brutal defeat, but instead of looking forward to 2018, Dane Roy is left wondering if he'll ever punt a football again as a knee injury dominates his offseason. A combination of homesickness and boredom consumes Dane off the practise field, but it wasn't all bad, as New York delivers a moment that would change his life forever.

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    35 min
  • Christmas in Hawaii

    Following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, we head into the 2017 College Football season with the University of Houston Cougars, and Dane Roy details some changes in the football program after the transition from Tom Herman to Major Applewhite, training-ground fights and the emotional toll of a family illness and a long-distance relationship, before a little trip to the Aloha State for the Hawaii Bowl.

    Featuring guest appearances from ESPN Australia's Steve Smith, and David Bassity, of the Atlanta Falcons (formerly UH Athletics Digital Media & Communications).

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    45 min
  • A Major change and "Viva Loss Vegas"

    As Dane and the University of Houston Cougars rebound from the shock defection of head coach, Tom Herman, they have the 2017 Vegas Bowl to look forward to, while we get some insight into what Dane is like off the gridiron, in class and around campus with the mental battles of being so far away from home.

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    55 min
  • Houston, we have a Punter...

    It is 2016, and after winning a longest kick competition, Australian, Dane Roy, has committed to the University of Houston, who have just come off one of their best ever seasons under first year head coach, Tom Herman, culminating in an American Athletic Conference Championship and the 2015 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.

    Dane has been having fun, living it up on the annual ProKick Australia Tour, but all that is about to change upon arrival on campus for his first season with the Cougars.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Growing up in Australia

    It's mid-2020 and Dane Roy is working out in Texas, after a four year College Football career at the University of Houston Cougars, waiting to see what comes next... but let's go back to the beginning. Who is Dane Roy?

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    50 min

About Taking A Punt: The Dane Roy Story

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At 26 years old, Dane Roy was working at Peter’s Ice Cream in Melbourne, Australia, when he stumbled upon the opportunity to participate in a “longest kick” contest, ending in a final showdown at the 2015 Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final. Roy won the final contest with an 81-yard (73-meters) punt that would ultimately change his life.