Chandler Merrill

JUNIOR (2025) Appeared in one game for the Toreros PREVIOUS COLLEGE Attended the University Southern Mississippi before transferring to USD Graduated at the top of his class in Construction Management, earning Summa Cum Laude honors and a 4.0 GPA Was selected to his school's President’s List and was a Construction Competition team captain Was also a Team Captain and Head of Community Service HIGH SCHOOL Attended Vestavia Hills High School Earned “I Like to Practice” and Hardest Worker of the Year" awards, while being a team captain Was selected to the All Metro-Birmingham Team and was named the Vestavia Hills Athlete of the Year Also competed in wrestling, where he earned Newcomer of the Year, and Most Improved awards and was a team captain Was a state runner-up in wrestling in 2020 Also competed in a third sport – baseball – where he helped his team get back to the playoffs after a multi-year drought Was his school's Addiction Prevention Club President PERSONAL Born to Larry Merrill and Laura Merrill in Birmingham, AL His father, Larry, played shortstop and third base for the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and California Angels organizations Notes that he has played at four different levels of college football: Junior College, Power 4, Group of 5, and now FCS.