Coleman Hutzler yells and squeezes water from a plastic bottle into the air. The entire team gathers around in a makeshift semicircle and hollers, creating a combination of peer pressure and encouragement.

Redshirt freshman kicker Alex Woznick sets his feet, looks at the goalpost some 50-yards away as his biggest competition Parker White and the entire South Carolina football team looks on.

All eyes are on him.

That's the scene at South Carolina's open football practice in Williams-Brice Stadium Monday night as Hutzler, the Gamecocks' special teams coordinator, and head coach Will Muschamp do all they can to simulate the stress of taking a pressure-packed kick in an SEC football game. It's something neither kicker -- both competing to replace all-time leading score Elliott Fry -- has ever done.

"Alex has the ability to accomplish and do everything that we need to do at the position but he has never done it in front of 80,000 people before and I can't simulate that in camp," Muschamp said prior to camp beginning. "So to try to put him in as many pressure situation as we can, we will. I certainly have a lot of confidence in Alex."

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Woznick, a redshirt freshman from Greenville's Eastside High who spent last season learning under Fry, was considered the odds-on favorite to win the job when camp began.

But redshirt freshman Parker White, who joined the team in January, has made a push into the conversation.

Muschamp has taken notice of the former Wando standout.

"Parker has come out of the woodwork as a guy [in the competition]," Muschamp said Saturday. "In the spring we were looking at him as a guy that was going to be our kickoff guy and certainly has done a nice job in camp to this point. He hit a pressure field goal to win the game [Saturday] with one second left on the clock. We are definitely in a competition."

As for Monday's kicks, with all eyes on them, Woznick hit four of his five attempts while White hit three of five.

There will be even more eyes on the Gamecocks' kickers during the season opener against N.C. State on September 2.