UW This Season: Conway will once again be one of the top targets at the wide receiver position this season. He will also continue to be one of the top punt returners in the Mountain West Conference and the nation.
2017: Conway was Josh Allen’s top target grabbing 62 catches for 553 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 70 yards on the season on 15 carries. Conway grabbed a career-high 11 catches for a career-best 135 yards with a touchdown against Gardner-Webb. He grabbed seven passes for 105 yards against Fresno State including a career-best 41 yard snag. He also recorded touchdowns against Texas State and Central Michigan in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. He recorded one rush for 40 yards against Colorado State in Laramie. Conway also went 2-of-2 passing for 22 yards. He recorded 22 punt returns for 228 yards averaging 10.4 per return. He recorded a season-long 55 yard punt return at San Jose State. He finished the season with 851 all-purpose yards.
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2016: Austin Conway appeared in all 14 games at wide receiver and punt returner. He grabbed 11 catches for 103 yards. He also rushed for 110 yards on 17 carries with one touchdown. He scored a rushing touchdown against New Mexico. He also threw for a touchdown at Nevada. He also returned punts ranking fourth in the league and No. 47 in the country averaging 6.5 yards a return. He returned a punt for a touchdown at UNLV.  The 60 yard return was the  first by a Cowboy since Chris McNeil returned one 75 yards for a touchdown against UNLV on Oct. 15, 2011.
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2015: Redshirted as a freshman on the Cowboy basketball team.Â
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High School: Conway was an outstanding football and basketball player at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo. He was named to The Denver Post’s All-Colorado team for all classifications as a dual-threat quarterback his senior season of 2014. During his senior season, he passed for 1,341 yards and 13 touchdowns and added 509 rushing yards and five rushing TDs. His junior season, Conway accumulated 1,847 passing yards and 1,130 rushing yards for 2,977 yards of total offense. He had a combined 31 touchdowns, 19 through the air and 12 on the ground. In basketball, Conway led Overland High to the Colorado Class 5A Final Four as a junior and guided the Trailblazers to their first basketball state championship as a senior.  According to Rivals.com, coming out of high school Conway had football scholarship offers from Army, Colorado, Colorado State, Nebraska, Rice and Utah State; and basketball scholarship offers from Indiana and Rice.
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Personal: He is majoring in management at UW.
