SPARTAN NOTES: In his third season as a Spartan...honored as a 2011 Arthur Ashe Sports Scholar...2010 & 2011 Coaches' Award winner..a 2008 and 2009 San Jose State Scholar-Athlete.

2011: Earned starts against Fresno Pacific (8/26), Cleveland State (9/9) and Air Force (10/21) among his 16 total appearances...took seven shots including two each at UC Riverside (9/18) and at San Francisco (9/25)...lone shot on goal came against Seattle (10/7)...among his 407 minutes of work, saw a season-high 60 minutes against Cleveland State.

2010: Played a total of 423 minutes in 13 appearances, earning four starts...posted three shots on goal in 11 total attempts...earned his first collegiate start vs. Cal State Northridge (9/12) also started at Denver (10/24) and against UNLV (10/29) and New Mexico (10/31)...twice, at UC Davis (9/5) and at Seattle (10/8), got off two shots in a match.

2009: Played in seven matches... assisted one goal, which came against CSU Bakersfield (10/23)...two days later made his only start of the season at Seattle University, where he took his only two shots of the season; neither on goal.
 
2008: Redshirted the season.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2004 graduate of Givat Gonen High School in Jerusalem, Israel.
 
OMRI: Majoring in history...interests include sports, friends, family and history...favorite professional soccer teams are Newcastle United FC and Beitar Jerusalem FC...played soccer for the Hapoel Jerusalem Academy from childhood through high school...after high school, was drafted into the Israeli Air Force (IAF), serving as an air traffic controller for three years...during military service, played soccer for his base team, as well as in a Sunday league with Hakoakh Kikar Zion...was discharged from the IAF in December of 2007...has one older sister, Maya, and a younger brother, Devon...the son of  Poli and Ben Brinner...father is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California...a native of Jerusalem, Israel, Omri Brinner was born September 23, 1986.