2013 Football Roster
Roster
Tanner Bleskin
- Position:
- Wide Receiver
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 218
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Great Falls, MT
- High School:
- CM Russell
Montana State (2013) Begins 2013 sixth in school history in receiving yards (1,847) and eighth in catches (129)… he is MSU’s starting X receiver. (2012) Capital One CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team… second team All-Big Sky receiver… ROOT Sports Big Sky Player of the Week for his 10-catch, 180-yard effort against Stephen F. Austin… had three 100-yard receiving games on the season… also FCS/ADA Academic All-Star… Academic All-Big Sky… his 928 yards on the season raises his career total to 1,847 yards, fifth-best in school history… MSU’s Hayden Ferguson Academic Award winner in the spring. (2011) Started all 13 games for the Bobcats as a sophomore… second on the team with 417 receiving yards and three touchdown catches… season high 80 yards against Minot State… posted two five-catch games (Utah, Minot)… Academic All-Big Sky. (2010) Rolled up 457 receiving yards, second-best season ever by a Bobcat freshman… his yardage total and 30 catches both stood as third-best totals on the Bobcat squad a… earned Honorable Mention All-Big Sky honors… caught career-high nine passes for 158 yards at Idaho State. (2009) Redshirted.
High School A multi-sport standout at Great Falls CM Russell High, where he helped lead the Rustlers to a state basketball title… earned all-state honors in football and basketball, and was a baseball standout for the Great Falls Stallions American Legion squad… an academic all-state choice… chosen for Montana East-West Shrine Game in football and Montana-Wyoming All-Star game in hoops.
Academics An exercise science major with designs on a career as a pharmacist.
Personal Born Tanner Joseph Bleskin on July 1, 1990… one of two children of Dan and Peggy Bleskin… his father and an uncle, Dave Bleskin, played football at Carroll College… former prep teammates include University of Minnesota baseball player Dan Olinger, UM-Western gridder Alex Waltari, and MSU-Northern football player Josh Wilson.
G # Yds TD
2012 12 66 928 4
2011 13 30 417 3
2010 12 33 502 3
