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  Lance Mitchell

Lance Mitchell

Player Profile

Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Pasadena, Calif.

High School:
Muir

Height / Weight:
6-2 / 207

Position:
S

Experience:
2V

Meet Lance Mitchell - April 2, 2009

Escaping the Gangs - August 20, 2009

Beaver Player Puts Life, Football, into Perspective-- Sept. 4, 2009

2010: A postseason honors candidate ... Lance is an outstanding athlete and may be the biggest playmaker on the OSU defense ... enters the season with 12 starts, nine straight. 2009: Started 12 games ... 72 tackles, ranked third on the team ... created two turnovers at UNLV - one interception and forced a fumble ... also had interceptions at USC and at California ... has 10 passes defended (3 INT, 7 BrUp), tied for seventh in the Pac-10. 2008: Lance was a special teams standout and played in the rotation at safety ... 11 tackles for the season, including five against Washington State. 2007: Redshirt.

MUIR: Scout.com rated him the 29th best prospect in the nation at safety ... made approximately 300 tackles during his three-year varsity career and seven interceptions over the last two seasons ... also played quarterback and receiver during his prep career ... assisted the team to a three-year mark of 26-10 ... two-time Pacific League Defensive Player of the Year...two-time San Gabriel Valley First Team ... team MVP as a senior ... three-year letterman in basketball.

PERSONAL: Born June 11, 1989 in Hollywood, California ... son of David and Jeannette Mitchell ... his stepmother is Regina ... four siblings ... Lance has a daughter, Dailey London Mitchell, born in 2010 ... his cousin, Damien Prince, is a track athlete at Morehouse College ... chose OSU because "it feels like a family, the program is moving in the right direction and it has a bright future" ... majoring in speech communication.

MITCHELL'S CAREER DEFENSIVE STATISTICS

Year UT AT Total TFL-Yds Sacks-Yds FR FF BrUp Int KB

2009 43 29 72 0.5-2 0.0-0 0 1 7 3 0

2008 6 5 11 0.0-0 0.0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 49 34 83 0.5-2 0.0-0 0 1 7 3 0

MITCHELL'S GAME-BY-GAME STATS (2009 - played in all 13 games)

Tck TFL BrUp

Portland State 7 0.0-0 1

UNLV 3 0.0-0 0

Cincinnati 3 0.5-2 0

Arizona 6 0.0-0 2

Arizona State 6 0.0-0 2

Stanford 6 0.0-0 0

USC 5 0.0-0 0

UCLA 6 0.0-0 1

California 6 0.0-0 0

Washington 5 0.0-0 0

Washington St. 5 0.0-0 0

Oregon 7 0.0-0 1

BYU 6 0.0-0 0

INT - 3 (UNLV, USC, CAL), FF - 1 (UNLV)

MITCHELL'S GAME-BY-GAME STATS (2008 - played in all 13 games)

Tck TFL Sacks

Stanford 1 0 0

Hawai'i 1 0 0

Utah 2 0 0

Washington St. 5 0 0

Washington 1 0 0

Arizona State 1 0 0

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