COLLEGE: Returns after two-year absence ... Played in all 10 games in 2002, making three starts ... Credited with 13 tackles, including 3.5 for losses of minus-7 yards; and 1 pass defensed ... Redshirt in 2001 ... One letter.

HIGH SCHOOL: Listed among Seattle Times Top 100 (red chip) state high school seniors ... Second-team all-North Cascades Conference pick as senior at Nooksack Valley High School, playing in just three games because of knee injury ... Team co-captain for Pioneers ... As junior, earned second-team all-league honors both ways ... First-team all-league as sophomore as tight end on offense ... Started and lettered three years ... Also earned three letters in basketball and baseball ... Second-team all-league in baseball and honorable mention in basketball.

PERSONAL: Major is political science ... His father, Neil, played basketball at Western, and his sister, Lesley, played volleyball at Seattle Pacific University.