2015 Football Roster
VanderVeen, Brent
Jersey Number 80
Brent VanderVeen
- Position:
- Tight End
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 241
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Arroyo Grande, Calif.
- High School:
- Arroyo Grande HS
Bio
OVERALL
- Elected to leave the football program during spring practice
- One career start
- Moved from quarterback to tight end midway through the spring practice session
- Earned his first letter for the Beavers playing in nine games
- Made the first start of his career at Washington State
- Caught the first pass of his career at Arizona for 14 yards
- Named to the Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team
- Made two catches for 30 yards in the 2015 Spring Game
- Spent the spring practice session and fall camp in a three-way battle for the second-string quarterback job
- Earned the backup job to start the season for the first two games of the year
- Did not play in a game
- Performed as the third quarterback throughout the season
- Did not play in a game
- Redshirt
- Led Arroyo Grande to a 24-4 record during his two seasons as the Eagles’ starting quarterback
- Named CIF Western Division Player of the Year
- Pac-7 Offensive Player of the Year
- First team all-CIF
- Second team all-state by MaxPreps
- ESPN Rise third team all-state
- First team all-county and first team all-league as a senior
- Helped Arroyo Grande to Western Division Championship as a senior; runner-up as a junior
- Second team All-Pac-7 and all-county honorable mention as a junior
- Rivals three-star athlete, was rated the No. 10 dual threat quarterback in the country and the No. 55 overall prospect in California
- Threw for 2,422 yards and 20 touchdowns as a senior
- Accounted for 1,402 passing yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior
- 203 yards passing and 89 yards rushing in leading Arroyo Grande to the CIF Southern Section title in 2011 – the school’s first since 1998
- Tacoma News Tribune Western Hot 100 member
- A standout basketball player, named Pac-7 Player of the Year as a senior
- First team all-county in basketball
- San Luis Obispo County Player of the Year as a senior
- First team all-CIF as a senior
- Also played first base for the baseball team
- Named second team all-state dual sport athlete
- Born Novemer 8, 1993 in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
- Son of Bruce and Mary VanderVeen
- Has three sisters, Shelby, Erica and Brooklyn
- Cousin, Todd Simko, pitched for the Washington Nationals organization
- Former prep teammate Garrett Owens is a kicker for Oregon State
- Enjoys playing basketball and riding dirt bikes
- Majoring in sociology
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