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SNOW FOOTBALL SENDS SEVEN TO FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS
C.J. Ah You Signs with
Oklahoma
EPHRAIM,
Utah—January 26, 2005—Snow College today
announced that seven players from the 2004 football team will sign letters of
intent on Wednesday, February 2. Headlining the list is C.J. Ah You who will
attend Oklahoma next season. Ah You is an All-Western States Football League
first-team selection at defensive end this season. He transferred to Snow from
Brigham Young University.
This marks the second season
in a row that Snow has placed a player among the nation’s elite programs. Last
year, Deuce Lutui, an All American offensive tackle at Snow, signed with the
University of Southern California. Lutui started for the national champion
Trojans this season. There were 34 former Badgers on four-year rosters in 2004.
Other
players heading for four-year institutions include Ty Sparrow (Weber HS) to
Weber State, Kevin Tallman and Brett Johanson to Southern Utah, William Liebert
to Idaho State, D.J. Wade (Weber HS) to Northern Arizona and Deondrick Nunez to
Friends University. In addition, Derek Beardall (American Fork HS) and Curren
Christensen (Manti HS) have announced that they’ll walk on at the University of
Utah. Chase Boyer (Fremont HS), brother to current NFL player Brant Boyer, will
walk on at Utah State.
Here
is the complete list of players including their position:
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C.J. Ah You –
Defensive End, Oklahoma (D I)
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Brett Johanson – Tight
End, Southern Utah (D IAA)
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William Liebert –
Offensive Line, Idaho State (D IAA)
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Deondrick Nunez –
Return Specialist and Defensive Back, Friends (NAIA)
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Ty Sparrow – Safety,
Weber State (D IAA)
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Kevin Tallman – Wide
Receiver, Southern Utah (D IAA)
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D. J. Wade –
Linebacker, Northern Arizona (D IAA)
Walk ons
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Derek Beardall –
Defensive Tackle, University of Utah (D I)
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Chase Boyer –
Linebacker, Utah State (D I)
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Curren Christensen –
Running Back, University of Utah (D I)
Snow College finished the
2004 season 7-4 and fourteenth in the NJCAA Top 20 rankings. The season
culminated with a 45-7 defeat of Rochester Community College, ranked eleventh
at the time, in the first annual Zions Bank Top of the Mountains Bowl.
Snow College
Snow
College, founded in 1888, serves approximately 3,000 students at its Ephraim
campus. The college provides general education and applied technology programs
leading to Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied
Science and Associate of Pre-Engineering degrees, and certificates of
completion in a number of occupational areas.
Once owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Snow
College became a state college in 1932.
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