Jeremy Perry
2008: Perry is considered one of the premier guards in the country and a certain NFL prospect...has been bothered by injuries of late and missed spring practice while rehabilitating from April knee surgery...athletic player with great intensity on the field...Outland Trophy watch list...enters the year with 26 starts. 2007: Perry broke a leg in the season opener vs. Utah and came back late in the year to play sparingly in two games...missed spring ball while rehabilitating from a knee injury suffered in the final game of the year against at Hawai’i, which forced him to miss the Sun Bowl...Athlon Sports preseason second team All-American...Sporting News named him the best athlete in the nation wearing No. 62. 2006: Perry began the season on the “Watch Lists” for the Outland and Lombardi Awards...Pac-10 Conference First Team. 2005: Jeremy’s honors included Pac-10 Conference Co-Freshman of the Year (Michael Thomas, WR,
KAHUKU: Jeremy was the first offensive lineman in the history of the state of Hawai’i to be named its Offensive Player of the Year – linebacker Walker Vave, who joined the team in January of 2007, was the state’s defensive player of the year the same season...lettered on the varsity team three years for head coach Siuaki Livai...led Kahuku to a pair of state titles...also played basketball.
PERSONAL: Jeremy is the son of George and Sherry Perry...George is in the golf management profession...has one sister, Lolanda, and one brother, George, Jr...chose OSU because of the “academic and football opportunities”...participated in the 2008 OSU Learning Through Excellence Spring Break program – studying Native American Issues in Rural Oregon Communities, interacting five days with the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde...majoring in liberal studies and will graduate in December.
