David Kircus Class: Senior Hometown: Imlay City, Mich. High School: Imlay City Height / Weight: 6-3 / 185 Position: WR

2002: Lindy’s College Football preseason First-Team All-American...Street And Smith’s College Football preseason First-Team All-American.

2001: Consensus All-American...AFCA First-Team All-American...Associated Press Little All-American First-Team...Daktronics First-Team All-American...D2Football.com First-Team All-American...Don Hansen’s Football Gazette First-Team All-American...Daktronics First-Team All-Northeast Region...National Football Weekly Gazette Player of the Week (Nov. 11)...GLIAC Co-Offensive Back of the Year...All-GLIAC First-Team...Hauled in 81 receptions for 1,682 yards and 32 TDs including playoffs...Caught 62 passes for 1,301 yards and 28 TDs in 10 regular season games...62 receptions tied Jason Trice’s 62 in 1997 and was one shy of Trice’s 63 catches in 1998...Averaged 21.0 yards per reception...Turned in a record-setting day in the final game of the 2001 season with eight receptions for a GVSU single-game record 246 yards and four TDs. With his four TD catches vs. Hillsdale, Kircus set the NCAA all-division single-season record for TD catches (28). The record of 27 was previously held by Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley State, 1984) and Troy Edwards (Louisiana Tech, 1998)...Kircus holds the GLIAC single-season record for TD catches in league games only (26)...Set the GLIAC single-season record for TDs scored (26) and points scored (156)...Set the GLIAC and GVSU single-game record for TD catches in a game (5) at Ferris State (10/6)...Led Division II in points per game (16.8) and ranked second in receiving yards per game (130.1)...Ranked 16th in receptions per game (6.2) and all-purpose yards per game (130.1)...Averaged a TD every 2.3 catches in 2001...Kircus set the GVSU single-season mark for 100-yard receiving games (7) ... Named GLIAC Player of the Week twice (Wayne State 11/5; Hillsdale 11/12)...Tallied seven catches for 153 yards and two TDs vs. Saginaw Valley State (9/8)...One TD catch vs. SVSU covered a school-record 98 yards...Hauled in six receptions for 113 yards and two TDs vs. Northern Michigan (9/29)...Caught eight passes for 169 yards and five TDs at Ferris State (10/6)...Tallied six catches for 121 yards and three TDs vs. Mercyhurst (10/20)...Added seven receptions for 182 yards and three TDs at Michigan Tech (10/27)...Hauled in seven catches for 100 yards and four TDs vs. Wayne State (11/5)...Caught eight passes for 172 yards and one TD vs. Bloomsburg (11/17) in NCAA DII Playoffs...Caught four passes vs. Saginaw Valley State (11/24), three of which went for TDs...Caught 19 passes for 381 yards and four TDs in playoffs...Recorded a GVSU single-season record for all-purpose yards (1,540) in regular season games...Returned 21 punts for 221 yards (10.5)...168 points scored is the top single-season total in Laker annals...David has scored 252 points in his career, the second-best total in Laker history.

2000: Hauled in 56 catches for 967 yards and eight TDs...Averaged 17.3 yards per reception...Second-Team All-GLIAC selection...Set GVSU single-season record with 967 yards receiving, bettering Frank Miotke’s 963 yards in 1987...56 catches was the fourth-best single-season total in Laker annals...Caught a pass in every game and hauled in five or more passes seven times...Tied GVSU single-game record with 11 catches at Hillsdale (11/11) in season finale...Caught 11 passes for a career-best 209 yards at Hillsdale and final catch set up game-winning field goal with no time left...Caught five passes for 201 yards and three TDs at Mercyhurst (10/21)...TDs covered 59-, 51- and 26 yards...Tabbed GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week following Mercyhurst and Hillsdale games...Hauled in five catches for 94 yards at Wayne State (11/4).

1999: Earned first varsity letter after playing in eight games...Caught 27 passes for 533 yards and five TDs...Averaged a team-best 19.7 yards per catch...Returned 14 punts for a team-high 131 yards...Set single-game highs in receptions (8) and yards (112) vs. Ferris State (11/13)...Four of first six catches went for TDs...Nicknamed “Circus Kircus” after frequently making acrobatic catches.

1998: Redshirted.

Career: Holds the GVSU all-time TD receptions record with 41 and single-season record with 28...In addition, Kircus is first in all-time receiving yards (2,801) and second in all-time receptions (145)...Has caught a pass in every game played for the Lakers (34)...Averaging a TD reception every 3.5 catches in regular season action...Two or more TD receptions in a game 13 times in 29 career games played...Three TD catches in a game three times, four TD catches in a game twice and five TD catches in a game once...Holds the career-record for 100-yard receiving games (10)...Three games with 200 yards or more receiving yards...Kircus is third on the GVSU all-time, all-purpose yards list with 3,491 yards (2,801 receiving; 107 KO returns; 571 punt returns)...Kircus is 6th in all-time NCAA DII TD receptions with 41, just eight behind leader Bruce Cerone’s (Yankton/Emporia State) 49 from 1966-69.

Prior to GVSU: Prepped at Imlay City High School...Received All-Michigan Athletic Conference honors as a sophomore, junior and senior...Detroit News All-State performer as a junior and senior...Three-time team captain...Rushed for combined 1,827 yards and 38 touchdowns as a junior and senior...Also caught 55 passes for 1,201 yards and 19 TDs...Lettered in four sports in high school.

Personal: Son of Anthony and Elaine Kircus...Born 2/19/80...Has seven siblings made up of four brothers and three sisters.