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#36 Vince Buhagiar
Position: Outside Linebacker
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 244
Year: Senior
Hometown: Concord, Calif.
High School: Clayton Valley HS
Experience: 3 Letters
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AT SAN JOSE STATE: Fourth season with the Spartans... Was moved from linebacker to outside linebacker in the new defensive scheme during 2013 Spring practice... 38 games played with 29 career starts... Six games with 10 or more tackles... One of four freshmen from the 2010 recruiting class to receive Freshman All-American recognition...Became a linebacker after the team’s first 2010 preseason scrimmage... Three-time Academic All-WAC and San Jose State University Scholar-Athlete honoree... Last name is pronounced BOO-hah-zure.

2012: First-team All-Western Athletic Conference linebacker... Started in all 13 games...  Second on the Spartans in tackles with 89... Three games with 10 or more tackles including a season-high 11 in the wins over Colorado State (9/15), San Diego State (9/22) and Louisiana Tech (11/24)... Fourth on the team with 9.5 tackles for loss... Had a tackle for loss in each of the first five games of the season and eight overall... Single-game career best 3.0 tackles for loss in the San Diego State victory.

2011: Played in 12 games and was a starter three times...Shared the middle linebacker position the entire season... Had at least one tackle in 11 of the 12 games...A season-high 10 stops in the opener at Stanford (9/3)...One of four Spartans with a team-high two fumble recoveries...Best game may have been in the 27-24 Navy win (11/19) when he was credited with six tackles, his first career assisted quarterback sack and a fumble recovery.


2010:
Phil Steele third-team Freshman All-America selection ...Fifth nationally among freshmen tacklers with 89...One of six Spartans to start in all 13 games...First first-time freshman in six years to start at a linebacker spot for San Jose State...First first-time freshman linebacker to start in a season opener for the Spartans... Second on the team and ninth in the WAC in tackles...Team's leading tackler against nationally-ranked opponents Alabama (9/4), Wisconsin (9/11) and Utah (9/25)... Season-high 11 tackles against Utah State (11/13)...10 tackles at Utah (9/25)...Nine tackles five times in 2010.


HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 CalHiSports.com first-team all-state selection...Excelled as a linebacker and fullback at Clayton Valley High (Coach Herc Pardi) in Concord, Calif...The school's career leader in touchdowns (38) and total points scored (238)...1,609 yards rushing and 170 tackles his last two seasons...2009 Co-Most Valuable Player of the Diablo Valley League rushed for 1,011 yards and scored 16 touchdowns and caught 16 passes for four more TDs...Rushed 22 times for 194 yards and scored five times in a playoff game vs. Concord High ..Second on his team in total tackles with 92 and two interceptions...2009 second-team All-Metro linebacker choice by the San Francisco Chronicle and Contra Costa Times Cream of the Crop pick...A two-time first-team all-league linebacker... Played in the 2009 Sacramento vs. East Bay All-Star game... Named to the Bay Area News Group's East Bay Athletes of the Year list...The two-sport standout also was a shot put and discus thrower in track and field.


MORE ON VINCE: A psychology major...Interested in a career in psychiatry...Played rugby since the eighth grade for the LaMorinda Club team based in Moraga, Calif. ...One of his cousins is 2004 Olympic gold medalist Joey Hansen, who rowed for the United States 8-man boat ...The native of Concord, Calif., was born on February 25, 1992.

CAREER DEFENSIVE STATISTICS

  G UT AT TOTAL TFL/YDS. SK FF FR DEF
2010...FR 13 36 53 89 2.0/2 0.0 1
 0 2
2011...SO 12 22 28 50
2.5/8
0.5 0
2 1
2012...JR 13 47 42 89 9.5/26 3.0 1 1 1
CAREER 38 105 123 228
14.0/36 3.5 2
 3 4
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