Colorado University Athletics
Daniel Sanders Biography
DANIEL SANDERS
OL, 6-4, 295, Vista, Calif. (El Camino)
HIGH SCHOOL?A three-year letterman who played all three positions on the offensive line during his prep career. He played both guard and center as a senior, when he led his team with 112 pancake blocks, as well as in cut blocks and big hits by an offensive lineman. He did not allow a quarterback sack, and the only penalty he was called for was an illegal procedure for rolling the ball over to grab the laces to snap it. As a junior, he played tackle in starting the five games he played in, but he missed seven others with a broken bone in his foot. He played guard as a sophomore, ascending into the starting lineup for the last three games of the year. Top games his senior year came in a 31-24 win over Valley Center, when he had 15 pancakes and three touchdown blocks in helping his team rush for 430 yards, and in a 29-28 loss to Carlsbad, when he switched off between center and guard the entire game in piling up 14 pancakes. El Camino was 3-7 his senior year, 6-6 his junior season and 7-4 his sophomore campaign under coach Herb Meyer. He will letter for the fourth time in track this spring, as he participates in throws (career best of 50-1 in the shot put and 130-0 in the discus). He was seventh in the CIF meet as a junior in shot put.
ACADEMICS?He is interested in business management as his major at Colorado. A two-time member of the San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic team as a junior and senior as well as a consistent member of the honor roll in high school with a 3.21 grade point average.
VITALS?Has 5.1 speed in the 40, bench presses 315 pounds and owns a 455-pound squat.
RECRUITING?He selected Colorado over Northern Arizona, Idaho and UC-Davis.
PERSONAL?He was born February 3, 1986 in Oceanside, Calif. Hobbies include working out and going to the beach.