Player Bio: Stephen Paea - OREGON STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

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Stephen Paea

	Class: Senior
	Hometown: Los Altos, Calif.
	High School: Timpview

	Last College: Snow CC
	Height / Weight: 6-1 / 311
	Position: DT
	Experience: 2V

Stephen Paea on YouTube (July 2010)

Paea hopes to improve draft status (GT -- 4/2/2010)

Meet Stephen Paea

Paea is a fast learner - Gazette Times 8-18-09

He makes fast move for a key line spot- Paul Buker, The Oregonian

The Paea Family In The Land of Dreams- Brian Brooks, Beavers OSR

Stephen featured on KEZI TV

Paea featured on ESPN.com

2010: Paea (pie-uh) is one of the premier defensive tackles in the nation ... considered opting out of his senior year for the NFL Draft, but will return for what could be an All-America season ... strong player with a rugby background from his youth in Tonga ... faces constant double teams ... has quickness and strength to wreak havoc on opposing backfields ... the strongest player on the team, and possibly the nation's strongest tackle ... tied for third at OSU for career sacks with 19.5 ... Lombardi, Outland and Nagurski Award Watch lists ... co-team captain for second year ... Lindy's Football Preview and Athlon Sports First Team All-American ... Phil Steele's First Team Preseason All-Pac-10 ... NationalChamps.net preseason second team All-American ... candidate for the Lott Trophy, which is awarded to the top FBS defensive player who exhibits "integrity, maturity, performance, academics, community and tenacity" ... Rivals.com preseason No. 1 tackle in the country ... as of mid-may he holds all of OSU's defensive tackle records in the weight room - vertical jump (30"), shuttle (4.37), 225-pound bench (44 reps), bench press (550 lbs), squat (650 lbs), clean (365 lbs) - all would be in the top-10 statistically at the 2010 NFL Combine. 2009: Co-recipient of the Pac-10's Morris Trophy, given annually to the league's top defensive lineman as voted on by the league's offensive linemen ... Bronko Nagurski Award Watch List ... All-Pac-10 First Team ... Ted Miller of ESPN.com ranked him the 24th best player in the Pac-10 prior to the season ... team-leading 8.5 tackles for loss and co-leader for sacks with three ... tallied 3.0 sacks against UCLA ... forced two fumbles each against UCLA and at Oregon ... four forced fumbles ties the OSU single season record ... recovered a fumble against Portland State ... co-team captain. 2008: Paea made an immediate impact on the Beavers' defense ... Bruce Feldman of ESPN.com picked him as having the eighth best performance in a bowl game for being a "disruptive force" ... bothered the last month of the season with a bursa sack on his knee, forcing him to miss the start of the season finale ... 41 tackles for the season, including a career-high 6 vs. California and WSU ... 11 TFLs and five sacks -- impressive numbers for a tackle in the OSU system ... College Football News Sophomore Second Team ... Pac-10 Honorable Mention.

SNOW: Helped Snow to an undefeated regular season and national ranking of No. 3 ... redshirted in 2006 ... graduated with an Associate of Arts Degree early so that he could enroll at OSU ... was a teammate of current Beaver Sioeli Nau.

TIMPVIEW: Played just his senior season, where he was an all-region selection ... Rivals.com three-star athlete ... also participated in the shot put.

PERSONAL: Born May 11, 1988 in Auckland, New Zealand ... son of Peniamin (Ben) and Ana Paea ... has four siblings, including twin brother Will and younger brother Pora who plays at Foothill Community College in California ... three years of experience playing football entering OSU after growing up in Tonga playing rugby, a sport he once aspired to play professionally in New Zealand - still plays in the offseason at OSU ... did not speak English until coming to the States ... moved to the U.S. when he was 16 ... part of his decision to attend OSU was the Polynesian culture that exists on campus ... participated in the "Learning Through Listening: Native American Issues in Rural Oregon Communities during spring break, involving five days of interacting with the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians ... majoring in sociology.

PAEA'S CAREER DEFENSIVE STATISTICS

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