Mike Karpaasi
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 Mike Karpaasi after joining Seawolves | |
| No. 52 – Norfolk Seawolves | |
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| Position: | Defensive End |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | February 5, 2012 (aged 51) Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight: | 286 lb (130 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College: | University of Minnesota |
| ISFL Undrafted: | 2038 |
| Career history | |
| Roster status: | Active |
Mike Karpaasi (born February 5, 2012) is an American football defensive end for the Norfolk Seawolves of the Developmental Simulation Football League (DSFL).
Early years
"Mike was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Andrew and Jane Karpaasi as their third child. His father Andrew is CEO and one of largest share holderd of KCS, company found by Andrews grandfather. Even tough company isn't is working only on national scale it has provided good life for their family for generations and Mike was not expection to this. While his father and mother were always supporting their kids they didn't pave their road with money to make sure they got what they wanted. Still Mike was attending better schools and given lots of opportunities to choose from while looking for hobbies. They also travelled a lot.
Out of all hobbies it didn't take too long for football to rise to be his favorite. Trying out multiple positions but eventually settling to play on defensive line as he had been bigger than other kids of his age for most of his life."
College career
"Mike didn't go to college right from the high school but skipped a year and in the end ended up joining his sister at University of Minnesota. His main goal was to get degree in economics and to have a career in KCS but as studying was never his strongest suit and football had becoming his passion he soon find his plans derailed.
He was able to break into roster during his rookie year and showed promise while playing decent 8 games as Defensive end. His good performances continued during his second year on the team with 12 starts and he was clearly improving in his game. But as he really didn't have incentive to give it all to football his performance stalled during his third year and show'd even signs of regression during his 4th year on college, while some of it can be attributed to injures it still left taint to his potential."
College career statistics
| Career statistics | Tackles | Sacks | Interceptions | Other | |||||||||
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| Season | Team | Games | Reg | TFL | Total | Sack | Int | IntTD | DefTD | FFum | FRec | PD | Safety |
| 2033 (S18) | UMN | 8 | 45 | 3 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2034 (S19) | UMN | 12 | 95 | 9 | 104 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 2035 (S20) | UMN | 12 | 82 | 8 | 90 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2036 (S21) | UMN | 10 | 67 | 4 | 71 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
