Nathan Renfro, Maryland's starting punter the past three seasons, will enroll at Tennessee this summer and play for the Vols as a senior in 2015, a UT program source confirmed to GoVols247 on Friday.

Renfro, a former star at Nashville-area powerhouse program Brentwood Academy, is a lifelong Tennessee fan from a family of Tennessee fans but chose the Terrapins out of high school in the 2011 cycle.

After redshirting in 2011, Renfro started for the Terps the next three seasons, averaging nearly 41 yards per punt in 234 career attempts.

Renfro recently graduated from Maryland, which freed him up to transfer to the home-state Vols for the 2015 season.

Tennessee 2015 long snapper signee Riley Lovingood, another Nashville-area native, has worked out with Renfro for the past couple of months and described him as a "talented guy with a strong leg."

Assuming everything goes smoothly with Renfro's transfer eligibility — which almost certainly will happen —Â the Vols' first-team punter competition just got much more interesting. Highly touted 2015 signee Tommy Townsend (the younger brother of Florida starting punter Johnny Townsend) from Boone High School in Orlando is also enrolling at UT this summer, and both will compete with third-year sophomore walk-on Trevor Daniel for the first-team spot in preseason camp.

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