*** 2020-21 Academic Honors Candidate ***

Career: He has appeared in 36 games with the Eagles, totaling 89 tackles, two sacks, two fumble recoveries, and 6 1/2 tackles for loss.

2021: Was named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team. Lindsay played in 12 games, making six starts. He racked up 45 tackles (6 1/2 for loss), two sacks, and a fumble recovery. He had eight tackles, two of them for loss, against Central Washington on 9/11/21. Against Montana State (11/6/21), Lindsay tallied a career-high of 15 tackles, as well as a fumble recovery. His two sacks came in the FCS Playoffs against Montana on 12/3/21.

2020-21: Was named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team. He made the first start of his career versus Cal Poly (3/27/21) and had a career-high eight tackles. Lindsay also started in EWU’s finale versus North Dakota State (4/24/21) in the FCS Playoffs.

2019: He was named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team. Played 10 of EWU’s 12 games, mostly on special teams. He had 20 tackles on the season, including a high of seven in EWU’s season finale versus Portland State (11/23/19). He also had three against Northern Colorado (10/12/19).

2018: Was named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team. He saw action in seven games and finished the season with eight tackles and a fumble recovery. He had three tackles and the fumble recovery in EWU’s 74-23 win at Portland State (11/16/18) to wrap-up a share of the Big Sky Conference title.

2017: Redshirted. He was the team’s defensive scout team player of the week once.

HS: Graduated from Lakes HS in 2017. His head coach in high school was Dave Miller. After having 196 tackles in his final two high school seasons combined, he received votes in the balloting for State 3A Player of the Year as chosen by the Associated Press. Selected to the Tacoma News Tribune All-Area first team as a tight end for the second-straight season. Despite a hamstring injury, he still earned first team All-3A Pierce County League honors and was the league’s “Front Seven” Player of the Year after leading Lakes in tackles with 121 (13.4 per game) during the regular season. Lindsay also had four sacks, two pass deflections and a forced fumble. On offense, he finished the season with 12 catches for 205 yards (17.1 per catch) with three touchdowns, and punted for a 37.9 average with a long of 45. Six times he had double figures in tackles, including 16 versus Bellarmine Prep. He had 15 and 14 in the final two regular season games of his career. Lakes finished 7-5, beating Edmonds-Woodway (18-12) and Southridge (31-17) in the State 3A Playoffs before falling to Eastside Catholic (57-24) in the quarterfinals. Earned 2016 preseason All-State honors from the Tacoma News Tribune, as well as the Olympian, as a linebacker. As a junior, earned first team All-State honors from the Associated Press as a tight end. Was also selected to the Tacoma News Tribune All-Area team as a junior, and also earned first team All-3A Pierce County League honors as a tight end and honorable mention as a linebacker. He had 36 catches for 613 yards (17.0 per catch) and 10 touchdowns. He also had 75 tackles and an interception on defense. He had two touchdown catches on three occasions, with a high of 104 yards on four catches (no scores) versus Auburn Mountainview. He had 11 tackles in victories over Franklin Pierce and Bonney Lake. The Lancers finished 10-3 after beating Kamiakin (53-34) and Kennewick (35-6) in the State 3A Playoffs and then falling to eventual champion Eastside Catholic (49-21) in the semifinals. Also played varsity football as a sophomore, and competed in track and field in high school. Numerous former Eagles also attended Lakes, including 2016 senior J.J. Njoku (’12) and 1991-92 All-Big Sky Conference running back Harold Wright (’89). Lindsay attended EWU football camp, enabling the coaching staff to get a closer recruiting look at him. He was named by the Seattle Times as a “White Chip” selection as one of the top 100 prospects in the state of Washington.

Personal: Mechanical engineering technology major at EWU and had a 3.38 grade point average through spring quarter of 2021. Born 10/2/98 in Federal Way, Wash. Parents are Shelby and Katrina Lindsay. Name is pronounced “lynnd-zay.”
 

Year	GP	TT	Hi	S	TL-Yds	FF-FR	PBU	I-Yds
2018	7	8	3	0	0-0	0-1	0	0-0
2019	10	20	7	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
2020-21	7	16	8	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
2021	12	45	15	2	6.5-19	0-1	0	0-0
Totals	36	89	15	2	6.5-19	0-2	0	0-0

CALE LINDSAY Top Tackling Performances (1 with 10+)
15 tackles – Montana State – 11/6/21