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Mickey Mohner

  • Class
  • Induction
    2023
  • Sport(s)
    Football


Mickey Mohner was a four-year football letterwinner (2009-12), who led the 2011 squad to the national championship game and is the all-time winningest quarterback in school history with 30 wins (second has 20 wins).
 
He held three of the top four passing efficiency ratings in school history when he graduated and was WSU's all-time leader in pass attempts (961), completions (537), passing yards (7,287), passing touchdowns (55), passing efficiency rating (131.2) and total offense (7,186 yards).
 
Mohner ranked second in both career completion percentage (55.9%) and TD's responsible for (58), third in passing yards per game (155.0), and fifth in total offense per game (152.9).
 
He started the final seven games of his redshirt freshman season and was voted WSU's Offensive Rookie of the Year.
 
The following year (2010), Mohner started all 11 games and set the school record for completion percentage in a season (60.1% / 158-of-263).  He tossed five touchdown passes vs. Ashland tying the WSU single-game mark.  He was also named Football's Student-Athlete of the Year in 2010.
 
During the run to the national championship game in 2011, Mohner set the WSU single-season records for most passing yards (2,799), passing touchdowns (25), passing efficiency rating (144.2), and total offense (2,779), while tying the second-best mark for completions (186).  He also set the WSU single game record for passing yards (439) and again tied the single game touchdown pass mark of five in a contest vs. Lake Erie.
 
He started all 10 games as a graduate student in 2012, to set the WSU mark for quarterbacks with 44 consecutive starts.  A team captain, Mohner also received DII ADA Academic Achievement Award recognition.
 
A four-year member of the GLIAC All-Academic Teams, Mohner earned a spot on the Academic Honor Roll nine times, including six semesters on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.5+).  He was also the squad's Scholar-Athlete Award recipient in 2010.
 
Mohner was selected as a GLIAC Commissioner's Award honoree in 2012 for athletic and academic excellence.
 
The three-time CoSIDA Academic All-District nominee, he graduated in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in Accounting and completed his master's of Business Administration degree in 2016 from WSU.
 
Mohner, a native of Painesville, Ohio, has since returned home where he and his wife, Samantha, have three boys – MJ, McKinley and Milo.  He currently serves as the Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at his alma mater, Harvey High School.
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