Overview
- Ruiz named to Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List
- Extremley talented kicker with an extremely strong leg allows him to get exceptional height on the ball
- Has an ultra-competitive personality on the field and is known to perform his best under pressure
- Has 37 field goals through two seasons at ASU, good for 8th in Sun Devil career history.
- Has been true on 92 consecutive PAT attempts.
- Tied for 16th nationally with 18 made field goals on the season on 18-of-22 kicking and a perfect 45-for-45 on extra point attempts.
- Tied for 24th nationally with 48 touchbacks and 29th in the country with a 61.2 touchback percentage.
- Earned Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week honors behind his game-winning field goal against a Top-25 Michigan State team - one of his two games on the season with three field goals made.
- Recorded a career-long 54-yard field goal against San Diego State - tied for the third-longest in program history.
- Proved to be one of the top freshmen kickers in the nation and played in all 13 games for the Sun Devils, handling kickoff and field goal duties
- Made 19-of-27 (70%) field goals with a long of 52 yards
- Had 75 kickoff attempts going 4756 yards (63.4 yards/att.) with 52 kicks going for touchbacks
- Set an ASU record with his 52-yard field goal in the opener, his first career field goal to make him the first Sun Devil to have their first career field goal go for 50 or more yards
- Became the first Sun Devil in school history to kick two or more field goals longer than 50 yards in their freshman season
- Second nationally among freshmen in touchback percentage and total touchbacks and finished second among all freshmen kickers in the country with 19 field goals
- Ruiz was twice been honored as the Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week (vs. Oregon, at Utah).
- Named a 2016 First Team All-American by Max Preps
- Received the Chris Sailer Placekicker of the Year Award, awarded to the most outstanding kicker in the country by Chris Sailer Kicking
- Selected as a member of the West roster of the 2017 U.S. Army All-American game, where he was a teammate of fellow signees Eno Benjamin and Kaelib Jarrell
- Received 2016 First-Team All-State honors from the Arizona Republic
- Served as both the kicker and punter for the 2016 5A State Championship team at Williams Field that finished 14-0
- Tied the Arizona High School record for most field goals in a game, going 5/5
- Set the Arizona High School record for the longest field goal (58 yards)
- PrepStar Magazine included him as the lone kicker on its All-West Region team
- Five-star kicking prospect and the No. 1 kicker in the country according to the Chris Sailer, among the foremost authorities in the country rating High School football specialists; Mentioned in the 2017 The News Tribune (Tacoma) Western Top-100 list; Tabbed by Scout as the No. 2 kicking prospect in the country and the No. 1 kicker in Arizona; Ranked as the No. 2 kicking prospect in the nation and the No. 1 kicking prospect in Arizona by 24/7 sports composite rankings; Listed as the No. 3 kicking prospect nationally and the No. 1 kicker in Arizona by Rivals; Rated as the No. 5 kicking prospect in the country by ESPN
- Recorded a touchback on 189-of-223 (84.8 percent) of his kickoffs over the three years he served as the kick-off specialist on varsity
- Made 17-of-20 field goals with a long of 58 yards while converting on 66-of-67 PATs during an outstanding senior season