Alex Austin

Photo by: Scobel Wiggins/Oregon State Athletics

Photo by: Karl Maasdam

Position:
Defensive Back
Height:
6-1
Year:
Redshirt Sophomore
Hometown:
Long Beach, Calif.
High School:
Long Beach Poly

2022 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE)
• All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention
• Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 24)
• Wuerffel Trophy Watch List (community service)
• Played in and started 12 games
• Made 57 tackles with one sack, one fumble recovery, two interceptions and 10 pass breakups
• Opened the season with nine tackles versus Boise State, adding a fumble recovery and an interception
• Recorded six tackles with two pass breakups in the win at Fresno State
• Finished with five tackles and a pass breakup versus USC
• Tallied six tackles at Utah
• Totaled five tackles against Stanford
• Talled six tackles and a breakup at Washington
• Recorded seven tackles in the win over Oregon, adding one pass breakup
• Finished with four tackles against Florida in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl

2021 (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN)
• Played in and started all 13 games, making 47 tackles with half a tackle for loss and seven pass breakups. Intercepted two passes
• All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention
• Totaled nine tackles in the win at USC, adding one pass breakup
• Intercepted a pass and returned it 17 yards against Hawai’i. Also recorded four tackles in the win
• Picked off a pass on the second offensive play of the game in the win over Arizona State
• Picked up seven tackles at Colorado
• Totaled four tackles in back-to-back games versus Washington and Washington State
• Recorded two fumbles with a pass breakup against Utah

2020 (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN)
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Played in all seven games, making five starts
• Totaled 29 tackles with half a tackle for loss, one fumble recovery and two pass breakups
• Totaled five tackles in the win over Oregon. Also recovered a fumble versus the Ducks
• Racked up a season-best eight tackles in the win over California
• Credited with two pass breakups at Washington
• Ended the season with five tackles and half a tackle for loss against Arizona State

2019 (FRESHMAN)
• Played in three games. Redshirted
• Made seven tackles. Four came in the win at UCLA and three versus Utah
• Recovered a fumble versus Utah

LONG BEACH POLY HIGH SCHOOL
• 247Sports three-star recruit
• 60 tackles with 14 pass breakups over his last two seasons combined
• Also played WR, and returned kickoffs and punts
• One of 45 players to be selected to the USA Under-19 team that participated in games in Mexico City in the summer of 2017
• Also a standout sprinter in the 100 and 200 meters.
• Los Angeles Sentinel Student-Athlete of the Week in August 2018

PERSONAL
• His father Al Austin is a Long Beach City Councilman
• Majoring in marketing