Joel Stave
| Wisconsin Badgers No. 2 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class |
 Junior |
| Major | Civil Engineering |
| Career history | |
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| Bowl games |
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| Personal information | |
| Place of birth | Greenfield, Wisconsin |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
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Joel Stave (born September 12, 1992) is an American football quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers.
High School
Stave attended Whitnall High School in Greenfield, Wisconsin and was a three year letter winner in football and track and field and two in basketball. As a junior, Stave passed for 2,459 yards and 19 touchdowns and ran for an additional five touchdowns. He was honorable mention all-state by the WFCA, first-team all-region, all-suburban, all-conference and second-team all-area as a junior. As a senior, Stave threw for 2,635 yards and 22 touchdowns and ran for an additional seven touchdowns. He earned first-team all-state honors by the WFCA, honorable mention A.P. all-state honors, unanimous conference player of the year, first-team all-conference and second-team all-region as a senior. In his career, Stave threw for 5,094 yards and 41 touchdowns and added 12 rushing touchdowns. Following his high school career, Stave was rated a two-star recruit by Scout.com and Rivals.com. He was rated the number 17th rated player from the state of Wisconsin and the 110th ranked quarterback in the country by Scout.
College career
2011
Stave enrolled in spring semester and took part in spring practice. Red shirt season.
2012
On September 15, Stave made his Badgers debut against Utah State. Stave made his first career start on September 22 against UTEP and became the first Wisconsin freshman quarterback to start since Jim Sorgi on October 21, 2000. He recorded a career high 254 passing yards on October 6 against Illinois. Stave was injured on October 27 against Michigan State missing the rest of the regular season and the 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game. He returned in the 2013 Rose Bowl and attempted one pass in the game.
2013
Stave recorded his first career rushing touchdown on August 31 against UMass. Established new career highs in completions (24), attempts (29) and touchdown passes (3) against Tennessee Tech on September 7.
Personal life
Stave enjoys playing the piano and guitar. He is very musically oriented.
Statistics
Through the end of the 2014 regular season, Stave's statistics are as follows:[1]
| Season | Games | Games Started |
Record | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||
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| Comp | Att | Yards | Pct. | TD | Int | QB Rating | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | ||||
| 2011 | | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | 8 | 6 | 4-2 | 70 | 119 | 1,104 | 58.8 | 6 | 3 | 148.3 | 19 | -51 | -2.7 | 0 |
| 2013 | 13 | 13 | 9-4 | 208 | 336 | 2,494 | 61.9 | 22 | 13 | 138.1 | 37 | -22 | -0.6 | 1 |
| 2014 | 8 | 7 | 7-0 | 79 | 136 | 1,042 | 58.1 | 8 | 4 | 136.0 | 9 | -26 | -2.9 | 0 |
| NCAA Career Totals | 29 | 26 | 20–6 | 357 | 591 | 4,640 | 60.4 | 36 | 20 | 138.6 | 65 | -99 | -1.5 | 1 |
References
- ↑ "Joel Stave". www.sports-reference.com. USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
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