Kimball Madsen finished his prep career at Mountain Check out High Faculty as just one of the state’s most prolific offensive gamers. The 2020 graduate performed quarterback and operating again for the Buffalos as a sophomore and junior before shifting pretty much completely to working again as a senior.
The three-yr starter accounted for nearly 5,500 all-function yards and 52 touchdowns in assisting direct Mountain Perspective enjoy to three consecutive Class 2A state championship sport appearances and titles in 2017 and ‘19. Madsen was also a standout linebacker for the Buffalos.
Now the 6-foot-1, 210-pound multi-activity athlete — he was all-condition in basketball and assisted the Buffalos earn the 2019 Class 3A observe and subject championship — is ready for his future challenge on the gridiron.
“I’m going to wander on at Wyoming,” Madsen mentioned in a telephone job interview previous month. “I was likely to serve a mission and I went to the (Missionary Instruction Center), but I felt there was something else I necessary to be executing ideal now.”
Soon after returning from the MTC, Madsen arrived at out to UW restricted ends and fullbacks mentor Shannon Moore, who experienced initial contacted Madsen in the course of his senior 12 months.
“I named up Mentor Moore and I explained to him I was likely to be attending UW in the slide,” Madsen recalled. “They had recruited me when I was in high school so there was currently fascination there and I knew the coaches.”
Madsen educated Moore that he was interested in enjoying for the household-condition Cowboys. With no roster places readily available, while, the plan was to have Madsen be an equipment manager this period and then join the team following spring.
Anything seemed in put right up until Madsen gained a call from Moore.
“He named me out of nowhere and claimed they experienced a place open up due to the fact they have been thin at fullback,” Madsen mentioned. “And he informed the other coaches that he would pick me around all people else that was on the wander-on board.
“He asked me if I preferred to engage in and I mentioned, ‘Absolutely!’ There was no hesitation on my element.”
Madsen experienced acquired curiosity from regional schools like Rocky Mountain University, Colorado School of Mines and Dickinson Condition, amid other people, but none of them had the pull, or the prestige, of participating in for the Cowboys.
“I’ve often required to go to Wyoming,” he reported. “And the coaches have completed a fantastic task stressing how vital it is for me to get an education and how much they’ll assist me. For the reason that I know that no matter whether it’s appropriate immediately after higher school or in 20 several years, soccer ends but possessing an instruction does not.
“But I also know if there is an prospect to participate in I’ll jump all above it.”
Even if it usually means participating in a place he’s by no means played before.
“I considered I was likely to be equipped to enjoy linebacker simply because that’s wherever they had been recruiting me when I was in higher school,” Madsen said. “I considered at least it was going to be a defensive position, but when Mentor Moore explained fullback I jumped all above that.
“I’ve in no way played fullback just before,” he added, “but I’m up for the obstacle and I’m ready to go. I’m open to any probability I have to perform football and I’ll do whichever I have to do to enjoy at UW. I’ll play on the line if that’s what they require.”
Madsen will join a fullback room that characteristics two other in-condition gamers in Parker Christensen (6-2,229), a redshirt freshman from Sheridan, and Caleb Driskill (6-2, 235), a freshman from Thunder Basin. Christensen, who performed limited conclude last time for UW, enters slide camp atop the depth chart at the posture, though Driskill is shown as the backup.
Madsen expects to be in Laramie by the end of the thirty day period in order to get acclimated prior to the commence of slide camp in August. With the belief that he’s accomplishing what he demands to at a area he enjoys, Madsen is completely ready for whatever arrives upcoming.
“Looking back there is no way I could have witnessed this taking place,” he claimed. “But the way that every little thing has labored out is kind of cool.”
Abide by athletics editor Jack Nowlin on Twitter @CASJackN