John Volker

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Height:
6-0
Weight:
210
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Fair Haven, N.J.
High School:
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional

Awards:
Honorable Mention All-Ivy (2024)
Phil Steele Third-Team All-Ivy (2023)
Phil Steele Fourth-Team All-Ivy (2024)
NFF Hampshire Honor Society (2024)

2024: Played in all but one game, recording 514 yards on the ground with six touchdowns … Scored a touchdown at Lehigh (Sept. 21) … Ran for 88 yards vs. Howard (Sept. 28) … Added 61 yards and a touchdown at Columbia (Oct. 5) … Scored twice, collecting 79 yards vs. Brown (Oct. 18) … Finished Princeton career with 170 all-purpose yards and a touchdown vs. Penn (Nov. 23).

2023: Ran for 447 yards on 93 carries, adding seven touchdowns … Had 91 yards including 51-yard rush at San Diego (Sept. 16) … Contributed 149 and a touchdown vs. Bryant (Sept. 23) … Game-winning touchdown vs. Columbia (Sept. 29) … Registered a touchdown at Brown (Oct. 14) …. Scored twice and put up 68 all-purpose yards at Dartmouth (Nov. 3) … Had 90 yards rushing and four catches vs. Yale (Nov. 11).

2022: Saw action in four contests before missing time because of an injury … Corralled 28 carries for 95 yards and two touchdowns … Reached paydirt vs. Lehigh ... Collected 32 yards rushing and a touchdown at Stetson.

2021: Appeared in eight games … Rushed 35 times for 126 yards, adding four catches for 96 yards and two touchdowns … Caught an 18-yard touchdown at Penn … Reached the end zone from 64 yards out vs. Yale … Ran for 55 yards at Dartmouth …Forced a fumble on special teams at Monmouth ... First career rushing touchdown vs. Stetson.

Before Princeton:
Rumson Fair Haven: Named All-State, to the N.J. Super and N.J. JSZ All-Zone Teams in 2020 … Two-time All-Conference in football … Football squad was the 2018 N.J. South/Central Group III State Champions … Lettered in track and field … Was a 100m finalist in the N.J. Meet of Champions … State Sectional 100m title … Track team won the N.J. Group III state crown in 2021 … Member of the Spanish and National Honor Societies … Won the Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Award.

Personal: Son of Lynn and Charles Volker … Has two sisters, Emily and Megan, and a brother Charlie ’19. Brother, Charlie, played football at Princeton and is currently on the United States Bobsled team.