Kansas football team adds linebacker from Switzerland

By Zac Boyer     Aug 7, 2022

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Kansas linebacker Alex Raich receives instructions on a drill during training camp practice on Aug. 7, 2022.

The Kansas football team landed another transfer over the weekend in Alex Raich, a linebacker from Switzerland who spent the last two seasons at a junior college in California.

Raich, who is 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, joined the Jayhawks for practice for the first time on Sunday and wore No. 34. He’s listed as a redshirt junior on the team’s roster.

He is the 20th player to transfer to Kansas since the end of last season, the 13th who plays defense and the sixth from a junior college.

Raich had 26 tackles, including 4.5 for a loss, and an interception last season while playing safety at Golden West College.

According to JayhawkSlant.com, which first reported Raich’s commitment, he enrolled at Golden West with the intention of playing wide receiver before moving to defense.

He has been playing football since he was 12, is from Chur, a town in the Eastern Alps near the border with Austria and Liechtenstein, and before moving to the United States studied at Quader Schulhaus.

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Written By Zac Boyer

Zac is an avid KU Sports fan and writer.