2013 Football Roster
Roster
Baker Swedenburg
- Position:
- P
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 205
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Columbus, MS
- High School/Previous School:
- Heritage Academy
CAREER: Named 2013 preseason All-SEC by Phil Steele . . . Comes into senior season as one of the most consistent punters in school history . . . Saw action as the starting punter for the Bulldogs in all 26 games of the last two seasons . . . Enrolled at Mississippi State full-time in January 2009 and participated in spring practice . . . Outstanding local kicker and punter in the Mississippi private school ranks before enrolling at State . . . Member of the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll.
2012: Averaged more than 41 yards per punt on 57 punts as a junior . . . Held opponents to a total of six punt return yards on 13 returns all season long, a national-best yards-per-return average (0.46) . . . Forced 33 fair catches with 18 punts downed inside the 20 . . . Hit a long of 54 yards with five punts going over 50 yards.
2011: Saw action in all 13 games as the team’s starting punter . . . Averaged 41.8 yards on 71 total punts for the season . . . Pinned the ball inside the 20 four times against Memphis . . . Put three punts inside the 20 in a road victory against UAB . . . Averaged 40.0 or more yards per punt in 10 games . . . Nailed two punts inside the 20 in the Music City Bowl victory against Wake Forest.
2010: Did not see any game action.
2009: Sat out his true freshman season as a redshirt.
HIGH SCHOOL: Selected to play in the Max Emfinger High School All-America Bowl Game following his senior season . . . Was ranked the No. 3 punter in the country in March 2007 by the Ray Guy ProKicker.com website . . . Considered the No. 7 kicker nationally by ESPN.com in its postseason listing . . . Rated No. 9 nationally as a punter by Scout.com . . . Rated No. 24 on recruiting website Rivals.com ranking of the nation’s top punters and place-kickers . . . Rated among the top 40 recruits in the state of Mississippi by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger following his senior season . . . That newspaper selected him Second-Team All-State punter following his senior season for head coach Herbert Davis at Heritage Academy in Columbus, Miss... . Selected to the Columbus Commercial Dispatch Dandy Dozen, symbolic of being one of the top 12 players in the Columbus area prior to his senior season . . . Punted 46 times for a 42-yard average as a junior for the Patriots . . . Had a season-long 67-yard boot . . . Named First-Team All-State by the Mississippi Private Schools Association and First-Team North AAA All-Conference following both his junior and senior seasons . . . Punted for Heritage Academy when the team finished second in the state during his sophomore campaign . . . Also a standout baseball player on the high school level . . . Solid student in the high school classroom with a 3.00 grade point average . . . Committed to MSU in July 2007.
PERSONAL: Born Michael Baker Swedenburg on Aug. 19, 1989, in Jackson, Miss... . Son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Swedenburg.
Swedenburg’S Career Highs
Punts – 7, (4x) last at Arkansas (11-19-11)
Punting Yards – 332, at Arkansas (11-19-11)
Punting Avg. – 47.4, at Arkansas (11-19-11)
Longest Punt – 58, at Georgia (10-1-11)
Inside 10 – 2, at Troy (9-15-12)
Inside 20 – 4, at Memphis (9-1-11)
Touchbacks – 2, (2x) last vs. Alabama (11-12-11)
![Jacksonville Jaguars punter Logan Cooke (9) punts during the second quarter of an NFL football matchup at EverBank Stadium, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Jacksonville, Fla. The Jaguars defeated the Jets 48-20. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union]](https://images.sidearmdev.com/resize?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdxbhsrqyrr690.cloudfront.net%2Fsidearm.nextgen.sites%2Fmsstate.sidearmsports.com%2Fimages%2F2026%2F1%2F1%2FUSATSI_27828199.jpg&height=340&type=webp)
