High School: Played defensive end at The Lawrenceville School for head coach Ken Mills...led team to 5-4 record with four straight wins to end season in 2006...first team all-prep by the Trenton Times newspaper as a senior when he collected 72 tackles, nine sacks, two forced fumbles, and one interception in 2006...first team all-conference as selected by the league coaches...earned Lawrenceville Prep’s Tom Dickens Award as the team’s most improved player...competed in track and field and basketball.
At Delaware: Athletic defensive lineman who adds solid support to unit...looking to return to full form after missing spring drills while rehabilitating a knee injury...had surgery in December...projected as the No. 2 left defensive end behind senior John Higginson.
2008 Season: Played a key role as a backup defensive end and appeared in eight games, earning first letter...injured his knee vs. Hofstra Oct. 25 and missed the final four games of the season...posted nine tackles on the season, including five solo stops...recorded a career-high four tackles vs. William & Mary and three against Hofstra...had a tackle for loss among his two stops against Albany.
2007 Season: One of three defensive linemen in Delaware’s 2007 recruiting class...did not see game action and retained freshman eligibility...
Personal: Michael Olaoluwa Atunrase (“at-ton-rah-shay”)...born April 3, 1989...son of Michael and Lola Atunrase...oldest of four children...exercise science major who would like to enter sports medicine field or become an orthopedic surgeon...worked as a day care teacher and counselor during the summers...enjoys listening to music, drawing, and painting...plays the drums and the piano and performs at his church...both parents are pastors...both parents were athletes at the University of Lagos in Nigeria...father played soccer and mother ran track and played volleyball...cousin, Moreneke Atunrase, plays basketball at Texas A&M.
CAREER DEFENSIVE STATISTICS
| YEAR |
G/S |
Tackles (Solo) |
TFL |
Sacks |
PD |
Int. |
| 2008 |
8/0 |
9 (5) |
1-3 |
0-0 |
0 |
0 |
Career-High Tackles: 4 vs. William & Mary, 2008
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