Arizona Wildcats take on NAU Lumberjacks from Arizona Stadium.
Arizona: 2L... Expected to start at left guard in 2010 after steady development in his career... Started six games in 2009... Was banged up and missed five games down the stretch... Solid spring '09 put him in picture for potential starting role... Saw action in four games in 2008 as a backup guard... Worked as both a defensive lineman and tight end in 2006 while redshirting his first year... Recruited as a two-way player, opened camp as a defensive tackle, then played tight end for the latter half of the year in practice... Career: 12 games played, six starts...
High School: Long Beach, Calif., Poly High School, 2006... SuperPrep All-Farwest as a defensive lineman in 2005... SuperPrep All-West... A physical presence on offense as a tight end for coach Raul Lara... Big7Gridiron.com, a Polynesian student-athlete support group, named him first-team Super 7 defensive front... Los Angeles Times' preseason Top DL in Southland list, along with fellow recruits Rick Elmore and D'Aundre Reed... As a junior, he played at Los Alamitos and started at fullback and saw spot-duty at defensive tackle, earning second team all-league on offense... He transferred to Long Beach Poly for his senior year... Had seven receptions and scored two touchdowns as a tight end senior year, with 20 tackles on defense...
Personal: Academic major is sociology... Participated in the National Football Foundation `Play it Smart' program, which trains academic coaches to work with high school football teams during the entire school year, taking the transferable life skills learned on the field and applying them in the classroom and the community... Is a nephew of Arizona defensive line coach Mike Tuiasosopo...Date of birth: Jan. 20, 1988... Pronunciation: Coh-nan Ah-me-TOO-uh-nigh...
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