Player Profile: Courtney Arnick
#28 Courtney Arnick
Rivals.com: Profile as recruit
Position: Linebacker
Height: 6-2
Weight: 215
Class: Senior
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
High School: Carter HS
Career Honors: 2014: KU’s Defensive Player of the Week vs. Baylor. 2013: Academic All-Big 12 Second Team. 2012: Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll and Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (fall).
2015 (Jr.): Saw time in 11 contests his junior season, starting three games against South Dakota State, Iowa State and Baylor… Recorded 29 tackles, one tackle-for-loss and the first interception of his career in 2015… Notched a season-high five stops at TCU…South Dakota State: Began his junior season with a start at linebacker and recorded four tackles… Memphis: Contributed four tackles…at Rutgers: Wrapped up four tackles and caught the first interception of his career, returning it for 26 yards… at Iowa State: Started at linebacker and was credited with two tackles… Baylor: Started his second-straight game and posted two tackles… Texas Tech: Tallied one tackle and a quarterback hurry… at Oklahoma State: Acquired three tackles and a quarterback hurry… Oklahoma: Missed the contest due to injury… at Texas: Collected two tackles, one behind the line-of-scrimmage and forced a fumble… at TCU: Contributed a season-high five tackles… West Virginia: Earned KU’s Special Teams Player of the Week after he contributed one tackle and fulfilled various assignments correctly… K-State: Secured one tackle.
2014 (So.): Started five of the 12 games he played in 2014 and ended the season sixth on the team in total tackles with 45… Tackled in double-digits for the first time in his career posting 10 stops at Oklahoma… Southeast Missouri State: Posted one solo stop... at Duke: Recorded one tackle... Central Michigan: Set a then season-high four tackles, including his first career sack... Texas: Credited with his first quarterback hurry of the season... at West Virginia: Contributed five tackles and one tackle-for-loss... Oklahoma State: Had one tackle... at Texas Tech: Notched five tackles with one tackle-for-loss... at Baylor: Started for the first time in 2014 and posted eight tackles... Iowa State: Recorded five tackles – one-for-loss - and had a career-high two pass breakups in a victory over the Cyclones...TCU: Had two tackles... at Oklahoma: Credited with a career-high 10 tackles... at K-State: Made three stops.
2013 (RFr.): Earned Academic All-Big 12 Second Team honors... Played in all 12 games, starting six… Finished the season seventh on the team in tackles with 51 total stops… Credited with 3.5 TFLs, also had one forced fumble, one pass breakup and one quarterback hurry…South Dakota: Made his collegiate debut in KU’s season-opening win and tallied four tackles… at Rice: Recorded three stops... Louisiana Tech: Credited with his first career TFL and also had four stops... Texas Tech: Turned in a career-best nine tackles and also recorded his first-career forced fumble, pass breakup and quarterback hurry against the Red Raiders... Oklahoma: Earned his first-career start and finished the game with six tackles... Baylor: Started and picked up four tackles... West Virginia: Tallied five assisted tackles... at Iowa State: Recorded seven stops… K-State: Had six total tackles, including 1.0 TFL.
2012 (Fr.): Redshirted his first year at Kansas.
High School: A three-star linebacker according to Rivals.com... Rated the 13th-best linebacker in the Dallas Metro area by the Dallas Morning News... Earned unanimous first team District 11-4A honors following his senior season... Had a 60-yard fumble return for a touchdown in his school’s “Super Bowl” rivalry game against Kimball HS during his senior season... Recorded 112 tackles (60 solo), 16 TFLs, three pass breakups and one interception in 2011... Voted Carter’s team MVP as a senior... Named to ESPN Dallas/Fort Worth’s, District 11-4A’s, 2011 Preseason watch list... Served as team captain as a senior... Coached by Patrick Willams at Carter HS... Also competed in track and field, where he placed second at the district meet in the discus and fourth in the shot put as a junior... An excellent student, ranked seventh in his graduating class at Carter and was the senior class vice president.
Personal: Son of Carla and Curlie Arnick... Brother, Curnelius, played at Tulsa, where he was a four-year starter at linebacker and led the Golden Hurricane with 159 tackles in 2011... Also considered Boise State, Houston, Colorado State and Memphis... Majoring in liberal arts and sciences.