AT SAN JOSE STATE: Fourth season with the Spartans...Second season as a linebacker...Moved from safety to linebacker in 2008 with positive results...Two major college starts heding into the 2009 season.

2008: Was the Spartans’ Special Teams Player of the Year…Ninth on the team in tackles with 49...Played in all 12 contests and was a starter at Nevada (11/15)...In on at least one tackle in each of the first 11 games...Consistent contributor who notched at least two tackles per game in the first 11 contests and had four stops in seven different contests...Had a single-game personal best of eight stops  (3 solo, 5 assisted) in the Utah State win (10/11).

2007: Played in six games...A starter at Fresno State (10/20) where he had his season high of two tackles...Credited with tackles at Arizona State (9/1), Hawaii (10/12) and New Mexico State (11/10).

2006: Redshirted the season. 

HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered in football (Coach Craig Holden) and basketball at Benicia (Calif.) High School ... A two-time first-team all-league selection... Credited with 111 tackles as a senior in 2005...Named his team’s “Most Valuable Player”...Selected to the Sac-San Joaquin Section “All-Defensive” team...A two-time all-region guard for his basketball team.

POMPEY: Health sciences major... Interested in a physical therapy career ... The Fairfield, Calif., native was born on April 10, 1988.