Colorado University Athletics
Alonzo Barrett Biography
ALONZO BARRETT
DE, 6-3, 240, Alabaster, Ala. (Thompson)
AT COLORADO: This Season (Fr.)-A member of the 2003 recruiting class, he enrolled at CU officially in January 2004 for the spring semester. He relocated to Boulder in the fall, as he worked an off-campus job and also added 15 pounds to his frame as played at 225 his senior year in high school.
HIGH SCHOOL-As a senior, he earned first-team Super all-Metro Birmingham honors (all classes), in addition to first-team all-metro 5A and all-Shelby County accolades, as well as honorable mention all-state honors. SuperPrep named him to its all-Dixie region team, ranking him as the No. 26 player in Alabama (the second defensive end). He earned first-team all-metro and all-county honors as a junior. As a senior, playing defensive end, he was in on 94 tackles (65 solo), with over 20 for losses including 12 quarterback sacks; he also forced six fumbles, recovered two and had five passes broken up. He had 98 tackles as a junior (72 solo), with eight sacks, nine pass deflections, seven forced fumbles and one recovery he returned for a touchdown. As a sophomore at Shades Valley High School, he played as a backup defensive end and some tight end, mainly as a blocker (which he also did as a senior at Thompson; he had no career catches). At Denver's Thomas Jefferson his freshman year, he played tight end on offense and linebacker on defense on the junior varsity, but was called up to the varsity for the playoffs. Two of his top career games came against rival Pelham; as a junior, he had a career-high 15 tackles in a loss, but as a senior, he had nine tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in a 48-20 win, snapping a 10-year losing streak. He matched his career high with 15 tackles against Oak Mountain his senior year, adding two sacks, a forced fumble and a pass broken up in a 13-10 overtime victory. Thompson was 7-4 his senior year and 6-5 his junior year under coach Ricky Seale, while Shades Valley was 8-5 his sophomore year for David Stapleton, reaching the state quarterfinals before losing to eventual champion Hoover. He also lettered twice in track, participating in the 400-meter dash, discus and shot put.
ACADEMICS-He is interested in business management as his major at Colorado.
VITALS?Has 4.7 speed in the 40 and bench presses 315 pounds.
RECRUITING?He selected Colorado over Louisville, Troy State, San Jose State, Central Florida and Virginia.
PERSONAL-He was born April 23, 1985 in Aurora, Colo. He lived in Denver through his freshman year in high school, and attended Thomas Jefferson for one year before his father took a job in Birmingham, Ala. His hobbies include playing video games, listening to music and basketball. He is active in his community, as in high school, he was a member of Jack and Jill of America, a national youth service organization. An older brother, Jamal, is a junior offensive lineman at Texas A&M. A cousin, Ken-Yon Rambo, is a wide receiver with the New York Jets (he played collegiately at Ohio State), and a second cousin, Brandon Gipson, was a defensive back at Colorado between 1999 and 2001. He has been a CU fan since he was eight years old, with one of his favorite Buffs growing up being Rashaan Salaam, the 1994 Heisman Trophy winner; he is related to Salaam by marriage: his father's sister is married to Salaam's father's brother. His Buff connections never seem to stop, as his parents, Mason and Ammie, were married in Houston by the Rev. A.D. Walker, father of former Buffalo Arthur Walker.