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2017 Football Roster

35 Bikembe Kearney

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 195
  • Class Redshirt Sophomore
  • Hometown Rocky Mount, N.C.
  • High School Rocky Mount HS

Biography

AS A SOPHOMORE (2017): Played in all 10 games … Registered 43 tackles (22 solo), including 2-1/2 tackles for loss (-10 yards) … Also logged a 44-yard interception return and six pass break-ups … Turned in four or more tackles against six opponents, including a season-best nine stops (2 solo) against Lenoir-Rhyne … Also recorded 1-1/2 tackles for loss (-9 yards) against the Bears … Tallied five stops at Wingate, including a season-best three solo tackles, against three different road opponents – Wingate, Concord and Mars Hill … Also grabbed a pair of pass break-ups against Concord.

AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2016): Played in 11 games … Amassed 32 tackles (19 solo), including an assist on a tackle for loss (-1 yard) … Also logged a pair of pass break-ups … Turned in three or more tackles on four occasions, including a season-best six stops against both Fayetteville State (3 solo) and North Alabama (4 solo) … Turned in three tackles (2 solo) in his collegiate debut at Winston-Salem State … Logged an assist on a tackle for loss at Shaw … Grabbed lone pass break-ups against both Tuskegee and North Alabama.

AS A FRESHMAN (2015): Redshirted … Did not see game action.

HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at Rocky Mount High School for coach Jason Battle … Earned all-conference and all-area honors as a prep senior as a two-way player … Recorded 23 receptions for 325 yards and two touchdowns … Tallied 42 tackles (25 solo), including a pair of tackles for loss … Also recovered two fumbles.

PERSONAL: The son of Mary and Tony Kearney … Has an older brother, Taron, and an older sister, Nefertiti … Maintained a 3.0 cumulative grade point average at Rocky Mount High School … Enrolled in pre-major studies at UNCP.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2015Freshman

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    5'11" 175 lbs
  • 35

    2016Redshirt Freshman

    DB
    5'11" 180 lbs
    35
  • 35

    2017Redshirt Sophomore

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    5'11" 195 lbs
    35