2023-24 Football
Roster
#43 Ben Krimm Football Roster
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Height
6-1 1/8
Weight
204
Class
Graduate Student/Senior
Hometown
Columbus, OH
High School
Upper Arlington/Penn
AS A GRADUATE (2023)
- Appeared in three games in his final season … Saw time as a holder on the extra point unit
- PITTSBURGH (10/28): Saw game action in the 58-7 victory over the Panthers, holding for the final extra point of the contest
- WAKE FOREST (11/18): Earned playing time in the home finale against the Demon Deacons, holding for the final extra point of the contest
- at STANFORD (11/25): Punted for the first time in a Notre Dame uniform, hitting a 44-yard kick that was not returned
Prior to Notre Dame
at Penn
Career Honors
2022: First-team All-Ivy
2022: CSC Academic All-District
As a Senior (2022):
- First-team All-Ivy selection
- Led the Ivy League with an average of 41.6 yards per punt, which was ranked 24th in FCS by season’s end
- Finished with an Ivy-leading 11 punts farther than 50 yards, seven more than second place
- Had a season-long punt of 60 yards against Columbia (10/15)
- Racked up the second-most total yards (1,829) in the Ivy League
- 50-percent of punts fair caught or downed inside the 20 yard line
- CSC Academic All-District honoree
As a Junior (2021):
- Appeared in all 10 games
- Averaged 37.0 yards per punt
- Had four punts of more than 50 yards
- Had 18 punts downed inside the opponents 20-yard line
- Finished second in the league in fair catches and punts downed inside the 20 yard line
- Only eight punts were returned all season
- Lafayette (9/25): Had a 51-yard punt at Lafayette (9/25)
- Dartmouth (10/1): Had a 44-yard punt against Dartmouth (10/1)
- Columbia (10/16): Hit a 60-yard punt at Columbia (10/16)
- Yale (10/23): Hit a 50-yard punt at Yale
As a Sophomore (2020):
- All 2020 Ivy League fall sports were canceled on July 8 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
As a Freshman (2019):
- Appeared in one game as a punter
Prep and personal
- Three-year letterwinner at Upper Arlington in football and basketball
- Served as team captain
- Two-time first-team All-State (2017, 2018)
- Two-time first-team All-Conference at punter and linebacker (2017, 2018)
- Two-time first-team All-District as a punter and outside linebacker (2017, 2018)
- 2018 Prep Baseball Report Division I Second Team All State as outfielder and Pitcher
- Finished second in the Central District in home runs and batting average in 2018
- 2017 honorable mention All-State in baseball
- National Honor Society member
- Honor Roll student
- Son of Debbie and Paul Krimm
- Father played football at Toledo
- Uncle, John, played football at Notre Dame and for the New Orleans Saints