2014 Football Roster
Sep 12 (Fri)
5:30 PM
Ty Gangi
- Position:
- Quarterback
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Glendale, Calif.
- High School:
- St. Francis
AT COLORADO: This Season (Fr.) - He is projected to play quarterback as a true freshman in college.
HIGH SCHOOL - He was selected as the San Gabriel Valley Player-of-the Year by the Pasadena Star-News in leading St. Francis to one of its best seasons in school history. He also earned first-team All-CIF Southern Section and All-Mission League honors.
As a senior, he accounted for 3,311 yards and 38 touchdowns: he completed 189-of-342 passes for 2,882 yards and 25 scores (with only six interceptions), while rushing 117 times for 421 yards and 12 TDS; he also caught one pass for eight yards, and it, too went for a touchdown. He threw for 300 or more yards on three occasions and 200 or more eight times, with seven multiple TD-pass games. In a reserve role as a junior, he was 6-of-12 for 38 yards (0 TD/1 INT), and a sophomore, he completed all three of his passes for 47 yards (no scores or picks). He thus passed for 2,957 yards in his prep career. Top games his senior year: in a 48-14 win over Monrovia, he was 12-of-26 for 305 yards and four touchdowns, with 23 yards rushing and two more scores; he threw for a career-high 386 yards on 32-of-46 passing, with three scores, in a 56-35 loss to Chaminade; and in a 45-28 win over Culver City in the CIF playoffs, he was 20-of-29 for 244 yards (1 TD/1 INT). Under coach Jim Bonds, St. Francis was 10-3 his senior year, reaching the CIF Southern Section/West Division semifinals, and was 4-7 his junior season and 9-3 his sophomore year.
ACADEMICS - He is interested in majoring in Business at Colorado. He was one of 43 players honored by the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena and Whittier Chapter of the National Football Foundation, named one of its Scholar-Athlete recipients for 2013; he was also presented with the Jim Brownfield Memorial Scholarship. In high school, he was a four-time member of the Mission League All-Academic team, and garnered St. Francis Scholar-Athlete honors all four years as a prep.
PERSONAL - He was born Oct. 30, 1995 in Glendale, Calif. His hobbies include water skiing, fishing and playing the piano. His grandfather (Jim Brown) played football for UCLA, earning All-America honors at guard in 1955, and an uncle (Kevin Brown) was a quarterback at Cal. An exceptional student, he was also recruited by Harvard and Yale.
