Honors
- Conference USA Honor Roll: 2025
- MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award: 2024
- MVFC Honor Roll: 2023, 2024
- MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll: Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Missouri State
2025:Â Did not play in any games during the inaugural FBS season ... Earned Conference USA Honor Roll accolades.
2024:Â Did not play in his second collegiate season ... Earned MSU special teams scout player of the week for road wins at Illinois State (10/12/24) and Northern Iowa (10/26/24) ... Earned MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award and MVFC Honor Roll distinction ... Named to MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters.
2023: Redshirted as a true freshman in 2023 ... Saw action in just one game with a 48-yard kickoff in home win over Utah Tech (9/23/23) ... Dressed out for all 5 home games … Earned MVFC Honor Roll laurels ... Named to MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2023 semester.
High School
A first-team all-state kicker from Francis Howell High School in O'Fallon, Mo., Deal helped lead the Vikings to a 14-0 record and Class 5 state championship his senior season (2022) ... Also named to
Post-Dispatch All-Metro first team and All-GAC South and academic all-conference for the fourth straight season ... Coached by former Bear Brent Chojnacki ... Scored 117 points as a senior, including all 93 extra points he attempted, to go with 86 touchbacks, 4 field goals (long 41) and a 58.9 kickoff average ... As a junior, he earned second-team all-state laurels for a 10-2 club while accounting for 121 points (62 extra points and 7 field goals with a long of 35) and 58.9 kickoff average while earning all-metro distinction ... Vikings were 9-2 his sophomore year while he racked up 55 points, including a career-long 46-yard FG, to earn second-team all-state and all-metro honors ... Scored 70 points as a freshman, including 55 extra points and 5 field goals (long 35) ... Finished his career with 262 extra points, including 118 in a row, both state records, 221 touchbacks and 363 total points.
Personal
Joshua Graham Deal was born 11/2/04 in St. Louis ... Son of Ed and Angie Deal of O’Fallon, Mo. ... Has a brother, Jacob ... Majoring in Exercise Science.
