He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he won the inaugural Ray Guy Award.
Sander attended Roger Bacon High School in St. Bernard, Ohio and was a letterman in football.
Despite starting just one year at Ohio State University, he won the 2003 Ray Guy Award for the best punter in the nation.
[1] The following year, he played in NFL Europe, and punted respectably for the first half of the following regular season.
However, once the cold weather started in Green Bay, Sander struggled, and ended up near the bottom of the punter rankings.