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BYRON ELLIS

RB, 6-1, 190, Culver City, Calif. (Venice)

 

     HIGH SCHOOL?A three-year letterman, he was a third team all-state selection on offense as a senior, while Rivals.com ranked him in the California Top 100 (No. 78 overall).  He was also the league (Western) and city (L.A. Section) Offensive Player of the Year, along with a first-team league and city performer as both a junior and senior.  He will be a participant in the California-Florida All-Star game this summer.  As a senior, he rushed 190 times for 1,656 yards and 21 touchdowns, averaging 8.7 yards per carry with a long run of 72 yards.  He also caught 12 passes for 165 yards and a score.  As a junior, he had 147 attempts for 1,352 yards (9.2 per carry), with 12 touchdowns, while catching seven balls for 106 yards and three scores.  As a sophomore, he played in three games on the season, including the playoffs in which he scored one touchdown (over the span of his career, he has participated in 10 playoff games).  Top games: as a senior, in a 61-21 win over Sylmar in the CIF playoffs, he rushed 18 times for 175 yards and two scores, including his career long run of 72 yards; in a 30-20 loss to Carson in the CIF championship game, he had 19 attempts for 170 yards and a score; and as a junior in a 42-37 loss to Laverne Damien, he had 26 rushes for 187 yards and two scores.  Venice was 13-1 his senior year, reaching the CIF title game, and was 10-3 his junior season, losing in the CIF semifinals under coach Angelo Gasca.  He has earned three letters in track, participating in sprints (op time of 22.4 in the 200-meters) and relays.

 

  ACADEMICS?He is interested in pre-medicine for his major at Colorado.  He was the valedictorian in the eighth grade (at Marina del Rey Middle School), and that was just the beginning of a stellar academic career which saw him take several advanced placement and honors classes his senior year.  The owner of a 4.0 grade point average as a prep, he is a two-time academic all-city team member and earned the Academic Jacket of Excellence Award (presented to those students with a 3.75 or higher GPA for three years).

 

  VITALS?Has 4.55 speed in the 40 and bench presses 265 pounds.

 

  RECRUITING?He selected Colorado over Stanford, California, Arizona, Oregon and Oregon State.

 

  PERSONAL?He was born March 27, 1986 in Los Angeles, Calif.  Hobbies include watching movies and listening to music.