Kai Forbath Class: RS Senior Hometown: Pacific Palisades, CA High School: Notre Dame Height / Weight: 6-0 / 192 Position: PK Birthdate: 09/02/1987 Experience: 3V

UCLA - Kai has developed into perhaps the best field goal kicker in the nation ... Figures to be a top All-America and Lou Groza Award candidate in 2009 after earning third-team honors from the Associated Press a year ago ... Has displayed a strong, accurate leg ... Became the first Bruin to record five field goals of at least 50 yards in length during a season as a freshman and has made all six career attempts from 50 yards or more ... Enters his junior year with 44 field goals to rank fifth on UCLA's career list and his percentage is .846 ... Enters 2009 season with a string of 13 consecutive made field goals.

2008 - Earned third-team Associated Press (AP) All-America honors ... Named second-team All-Pac-10 by the league's coaches ... Chosen fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele's College Football magazine ... Selected first-team All-Pac-10 by Steele, rivals.com and ESPN.com ... Named first-team Sophomore All-American by CollegeFootballNews.com ... Tri-winner of UCLA's Tommy Prothro Award for Outstanding Special Teams Player ... His average of 1.58 field goals per game tied for the Pac-10 lead and ranked ninth (tied) in the NCAA ... Ranked ninth in the conference in scoring and fifth in kick scoring (6.5) ... Made 19 of 22 field goals on the season, including his last 13 straight ...His 19 field goals ranked eighth on the all-time school single-season list ... Kicked his sixth field goal of at least 50 yards during the season and is tied for first (Justin Medlock) on the all-time school career list ... Began the season by connecting from 42 yards out in overtime to provide the winning margin against Tennessee ... Also made a 41-yarder during the season-opening contest and was named Pac-10 Special Teams Player of the Week ... At BYU, he had one field goal blocked (32) and missed one (27) ... Converted his only attempt (35) against Arizona ... Tied his career-best with three field goals (25, 46, 35) against Fresno State ... Did not attempt a field goal against Washington State ... Made one of two field goal attempts (miss from 47, make from 28) at Oregon and also handled the kickoff chores for the first time in his career ... Tied his career-best with three field goals against Stanford (37, 19, 28) and was named Pac-10 Special Teams Player of the Week for the second time on the year ... Made field goals of 23 and 38 yards at Cal ... Kicked 29 and 35-yarders against Oregon State ... At Washington, he converted from 49 and 18 yards ... Kicked three field goals (53, 38, 26) at Arizona State to match his career-best ... The 53-yarder was the sixth of his career from at least 50 yards and tied him for the school career record ... Did not attempt a field goal versus USC.

2007 - Second-team Freshman All-America selection by The Sporting News and an honorable mention All-Pacific-10 conference selection for 2007 ... Honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic selection ... Offensive winner of UCLA's John Boncheff, Jr. Memorial Award for Rookie of the Year ... On the year, Forbath made 25 of 30 field goals and all 30 PATs for a team-high 105 points ... Made 24 of his last 27 field goal attempts and had a streak of 10 in a row twice during the season ... Became the first UCLA player to record five field goals of at least 50 yards in a season, including a freshman-best 54-yarder versus Oregon ... He is also only the second player in school history to kick two field goals of at least 50 yards in the same game (Medlock did it at Oregon in 2004) ... His 25 field goals were a Pac-10 Freshman record and rank third on UCLA's single-season list (first among freshmen) and ninth on the career Top 10 ... His 105 points rank eighth (tied) on UCLA's single-season list and first among Bruin freshmen ... He ranked third (tied) in the NCAA and first in the Pac-10 in field goals (1.92); third in the Pac-10 and 44th in the NCAA in scoring (8.1) ... In his debut at Stanford, Forbath converted all six PATs and made one of three field goals, missing from 28 and 42 yards before making his first career field goal (39) ... Against BYU, he converted both field goal attempts (37, 40) ... Against Utah, he converted field goals of 45 and 52 yards ... Against Washington, he made three (47, 39, 30 yards) of four field goal attempts ... Selected one of three Lou Groza Award "Stars of the Week" for his efforts versus the Huskies ... At Oregon State, he made both field goal attempts (37, 28) ... Made both attempts (28, 49) versus Notre Dame ... In the win over Cal, he made all three attempts (32, 28, 27) ... His final field goal, from 27 yards with 3:06 left in the game, gave UCLA a 23-21 lead ... Named the Pac-10 Special Teams Player of the Week ... At Washington State, he had a streak of 10 straight field goals snapped when he missed from 43 yards in the second quarter ... At Arizona, he made field goals of 35 and 51 yards ... The 51-yard field goal, with 5:04 remaining, brought the Bruins within a touchdown and was his second of at least 50 yards ... Against Arizona State, he kicked field goals of 28 and 42 yards ... In the win over Oregon, he made all three of his field goal attempts (54, 31, 28) and a PAT ... His 54-yarder was the third-longest in school history and the best by a freshman ... Did not attempt a field goal versus USC ... In the Las Vegas Bowl, he made three (22,52, 50) of four field goals ... However, on the final play of the game, he had a potential game-winning 28-yard field goal attempt blocked.

2006 - Did not see action in his first year in the program and has two seasons of eligibility remaining.

HIGH SCHOOL - Lettered four seasons at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA for coach Kevin Rooney ... Helped his team win three CIF championships and post an overall record of 35-1 ... Had a long field goal of 57 yards ... USA Today first-team All-American ... Rated No. 1 kicker nationally by ESPN.com ... EA Sports first-team All-American as a punter in 2005 and as a placekicker in 2004 season ... During his last two prep seasons, he converted 26 of 33 field goal attempts and scored 213 total points ... Had touchbacks on 150 of 188 kickoffs ... Made 134 of 135 extra point attempts ... Had a punting average of 46 yards ... Three-star selection by rivals.com ... Rated No. 1 placekicker in the nation by rivals.com ... Three-star selection by scout.com ... Cal-Hi Sports All-State first team ... First-team All-CIF Southern Section ... First-team CIF-SS Division III ... Named to the LA Times' All-Star team as a punter ... Participated in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and the CaliFlorida Bowl ... Also played soccer in the West Valley Samba Soccer League (Premier League).

PERSONAL - Full Name: Kai August Forbath ... Born: September 2, 1987 in Santa Monica, CA ... Parents: Thomas and Susy Forbath ... Has one sister, Malia ... Lists kicking the game-winning overtime field goal in the 2008 opener versus Tennessee as the highlight of his career ... Famous athletes he patterns his style of play after are former Bruin Chris Sailer and the NFL's Adam Vinatieri ... Hobbies include surfing ... Favorite school subject is Math ... Director's Honor Roll in Fall 2006 and Winter 2008 ... History major.

Statistics
Field Goals

CAREER HIGHS
Long FG: 54 vs. Utah, 2007
FGs In One Game: 3 vs. Fresno State, 2008, Stanford, 2008, at Arizona State, 2008, vs. Washington, 2007; California, 2007; Oregon, 2007; BYU (LV Bowl), 2007