[2] As a senior, he set a state single-season record with 22 field goals, making seven from 50 yards of more to help his team win a Division III title.
[4] After kicker Bjorn Merten graduated, Sailer assumed the position in 1997, becoming the first Bruin since Frank Corral in 1977 to handle both punts and kicks.
[7] That season, Sailer made four field goals in a 39–31 win over Oregon, including a 56-yard kick that stood as a school record until Kaʻimi Fairbairn's 60-yarder in 2015.
[8][9] Sailer finished the season as the runner-up behind Martín Gramática for the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation's top college kicker.
[13] In his senior year in 1998, Sailer struggled with his field goals after being bothered for most of the season with a groin injury.
[17] While still playing, he also ran organized camps and provided private tutoring to high school kickers and punters.
He held the first national camp in Las Vegas in 2003, when 125 kickers and punters participated in the presence of 30 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision coaches.