In first year on Western staff ... Works with linebackers ... Was graduate assistant for administration at Oregon State University last season and volunteer assistant in 2006 ... Earned bachelor's degree in business Management at OSU in 2007 and currently working on master's degree in business administration ... Was walk-on athlete at OSU, but forced to leave game because of injury ...2003 graduate of Willamette High School in Eugene, Ore. ... First-team all-Midwestern League selection as junior for Wolverines, making 33 receptions, eight for touchdowns ... Also standout in basketball and track ... 23 years old.