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Atlanta Falcons’ and Ridgewood Alum Younghoe Koo to Host “Koo’s Kicking Camp” in Ridgewood

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Ridgewood NJ, Atlanta Falcons Pro Bowl kicker and Ridgewood High School alum, Younghoe Koo, is set to return to Ridgewood this summer to host “Koo’s Kicking Camp.” This specialized training camp for aspiring kickers and punters in grades five through twelve is scheduled for July 8th. It will take place at Ridgewood High School’s stadium field from 9 a.m. to noon, with all proceeds benefiting the Ridgewood High School football program.

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Atlanta Falcons kicker and former Ridgewood Football Star Younghoe Koo Best Field Goal Percentage in NFL History

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Ridgewood NJ, Atlanta Falcons kicker and Ridgewood Ex-Pat Younghoe Koo has achieved a milestone, surpassing the field goal percentage record in NFL history with an impressive 39-yard kick. This accomplishment solidifies Koo, a former standout from North Jersey, as the new record holder with an outstanding 90 percent success rate, based on a minimum of 100 attempts.

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Atlanta Falcons Pro Bowl Kicker and RHS Alumni Younghoe Koo had his First Encounter with a Football at Benjamin Franklin Middle School

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Ridgewood NJ, Atlanta Falcons Pro Bowl kicker and RHS alumni Younghoe Koo had his first encounter with a football not until middle school. Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1994, Koo’s upbringing centered around soccer, and he even clinched victory in a regional kicking competition in Korea.

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Ridgewood Alum Younghoe Koo Named NFL Special Teams Player of the Month

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood alum and former Ridgewood Maroons Kicker Younghoe Koo was named NFL special teams player of the month for December and January. This was Koo’s second player of the month honor. He joins Matt Ryan, Morten Andersen and Matt Bryant as Falcons to earn their respective awards twice. Koo converted all 12 of his field goal attempts over the last five Falcons games, including one from 50-plus yards and he hit the game-winner as time expired to beat the Arizona Cardinals

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Former Ridgewood High School Star Younghoe Koo Scores Long Term NFL Contract

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Ridgewood NJ, former Ridgewood High School star Younghoe Koo became one of the league’s top kickers during his three-year run with the Atlanta Falcons. Koo and the Falcons have agreed to terms on a five-year extension worth $24.25 million, $11.5 million of which is guaranteed. He is now the second-highest paid kicker in the National Football league, trailing only Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker.

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Ridgewood High School Alumni Makes 2021 NFL Pro Bowl

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Ridgewood NJ, persistence and determination pay off for . The Atlanta Falcons kicker and former Ridgewood High School Football star and a graduate of Benjamin Franklin Middle School and Ridgewood High School was named to the 2021 NFL Pro Bowl on Monday night, a little over one year after being released from his second NFL team.

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Ridgewood High School’s  Younghoe Koo named Chargers’ starting kicker

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Los Angles CA, The Los Angeles Chargers are making a change at kicker this season.The Chargers released third-year kicker Josh Lambo on Saturday, ceding the starting kicker job to rookie Younghoe Koo.

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Lambo was 2-for-2 in the preseason with a long of 53, while Koo was 1-for-1.

Koo ,a graduate of Benjamin Franklin Middle School and Ridgewood High School ,is a rookie out of Georgia Southern, was born in South Korea before moving to the United States in 2006. The first-year pro was Georgia Southern’s first All-American and ranked second in the country in field goal percentage (95 percent).

Koo is probably best known on the for this insane trick kick.

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Sullivan: Former Ridgewood kicker Younghoe Koo pursuing NFL dream

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Tara Sullivan , NorthJerseyPublished 10:57 a.m. ET May 11, 2017 | Updated 1 hour ago

At first, it was the confusion. Then it was the loneliness.

Lost in this new American world, Younghoe Koo did his best to navigate the halls of Ridgewood’s Benjamin Franklin Middle School. But the sixth-grader didn’t speak the language, didn’t know the customs and didn’t, perhaps worst of all, know a soul. The lack of connection to kids his own age had built an imposing barrier from his old life in South Korea to his new one in New Jersey, cacophonous confusion by day, quiet solitude by night.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/columnists/tara-sullivan/2017/05/11/sullivan-former-ridgewood-kicker-younghoe-koo-pursuing-nfl-dream/317485001/

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RHS athletes celebrated their college acceptances

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RHS athletes celebrated their college acceptances

Ridgewood NJ, On February 11, top RHS athletes celebrated their college acceptances by posing for the camera. (Standing l to r) Cormac McCooe, Billy Maltz, Noah Pounds, Connor Kubikowski, Dan McKenna and Younghoe Koo, (seated l to r) Maura Feeney, Lauren Beausoleil and Maggie Carver.