High School: Competed in football, baseball, basketball, and soccer at North Penn High School...two-year varsity letterwinner as a kicker and punter in football for head coach Dick Beck...high school teammate of current UD redshirt freshman offensive lineman Kevin Uhll...team posted two-year record of 25-3 and went 15-0 on the way to winning the state AAAA title in 2003 his junior year...led team to two league titles...two-time all-conference and all-area selection who also earned All-State honors by Pennsylvania Football News as a senior...two-year letterwinner in baseball as a third baseman and pitcher...team went 28-3 in 2004...team won 2005 district title...earned all-area honors at third base as a senior...played one year of basketball and one year of soccer...National Honor Society...active in student government.

At Delaware: Walk-on...third-year member of the squad...has sophomore eligibility after sitting out 2006 season as a redshirt despite being No. 2 on depth chart all season...top candidate to take over extra point and field goal placements and kickoff chores after two-year starter Zach Hobby left school following the 2006 fall semester...will battle incoming true freshman Mike Perry for starting kicking spot for Hens...had a solid spring and was outstanding in Blue-White Spring Game in April, connecting on both extra point attempts and converting six of seven field goal attempts...connected on field goals from 43 and 42 yards in controlled scrimmage...has seen action in just one career game...2006: Second-year backup to sophomore kicker Zach Hobby...did not see game action and retained sophomore eligibility...team went 5-6 under head coach K.C. Keeler...hit on all four extra point attempts and connected on four of seven field goal attempts with a long of 32 yards in Blue-White spring game...2005: One of eight true freshmen to see action for the Blue Hens...walk-on who was thrust into action vs. James Madison Oct. 22 when Hobby was suspended for missing the pre-game meal...game was his only action of the season...handled kickoff duties and missed his only extra point attempt in Blue Hens’ upset win over the defending national champions...team went 6-5.

Personal: Jonathan Edmund “Jon” Striefsky (“stri-eff-ski”)...born Oct. 21, 1986...son of Edmund and Barbara Striefsky...finance major at Delaware...has a younger sister...works as a landscaper and umpires youth baseball during the summer...uncle, James Striefsky, played college soccer at Quinnipiac in 1980-84.