AS A JUNIOR (2013): All-region selection by Football Gazette and Daktronics ... Played in all 11 games for UNCP … Logged 54 tackles (25 solo), including a team-best 12-1/2 tackles for loss (-75 yards) … Broke a single season record with 8-1/2 sacks (-61 yards) … Also turned in one forced fumble, two pass break-ups and five quarterback hurries … Recorded four or more tackles against eight opponents, including a season-best 10 tackles (five solo) at Newberry … Registered at least one sack in four outings … Matched a school single game mark with 3-1/2 sacks at defending national champion Valdosta State … Tallied five stops (one solo), including one tackle for loss, in the opener with Winston-Salem State … Turned in four tackles in each of the next two games with Fayetteville State (two solo) and Shaw (three solo) … Also recorded a tackle for loss against Fayetteville State … Tallied three tackles, all solo sacks, against Wingate … Registered five tackles (three solo) at Catawba, including a 10-yard sack … Grabbed seven tackles in consecutive games with Tusculum (three solo) and Valdosta State (four solo) … Also tallied a pair of pass break-ups against Valdosta State … Registered four tackles (one solo) and two pass break-ups against Virginia-Lynchburg.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2012): Played in all 10 games for UNCP … Registered 14 tackles (seven solo), including two sacks (-7 yards) … Also turned in two quarterback hurries, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and two pass break-ups … Recorded multiple tackles against three opponents … Registered solo stops in consecutive games with Fayetteville State and Wingate … Also forced and recovered a fumble against Wingate … Turned in a season-best four tackles (three solo) at Virginia-Lynchburg, including a 4-yard sack … Tallied two tackles (one solo) against Catawba, while also producing a forced fumble, a 3-yard sack and a pass break-up … Put up tackle assists against both Tusculum and Carson-Newman … Registered three tackle assists against Newberry.
AS A FRESHMAN (2011): Did not see game action.
HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at Mount Tabor High School for coach Laymarr Marshall … Helped lead Spartans to an 11-2 record and the second round of the state playoffs as a prep senior … Earned all-county laurels after turning in 61 tackles, including 26 tackles for loss, as well as 11 sacks, a pair of forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries.
PERSONAL: The son of Ann and Greg Turner … Has an older sister, Ashley … A computer science major at UNCP.
