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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2009 Football

8 Kyle Olson

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 215
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Kennedy High School

Biography

Career: 2009 Honorable Mention All-Ivy ... Went undefeated (6-0) as the starting quarterback for the 2009 Ivy League champions ... Passed for more than 1,000 yards as a senior, completing 100 passes and seven touchdowns ... Named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week following the Ivy title-clinching game at Harvard (Nov. 15) ... Finished his career with 134 completions, 1,319 passing yards and eight total touchdowns ... Also served as the team's punter ... Earned Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week honors (Oct. 20) as a junior ... In his career, he averaged 38.5 yards on 43 punts, pinning 20 inside the 20-yard line.

2008: Played in seven games at quarterback and punter ... Started at quarterback vs. Brown (Nov. 1) where he suffered a season-ending injury ... Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week (Oct. 20) ... Was 12-of-16 for 95 yards before being injured in the second quarter against the Bears ... Completed 54.8 percent of his passes for a total of 245 yards on the season ... Punted 43 times for 38.5 yards per punt ... Had four punts of 50 or more yards ... Also downed 20 punts inside the 20-yard line, including six against Columbia (Oct. 18) ... Had a season-long punt of 57 yards against Dartmouth (Oct. 4). 

Fullerton College: Led team to 2007 Orange County Bowl title and a 7-3 record ... First-team All-Mission Conference ... First-team Academic All-America ... Scholar Athlete of the  Year ... Received College honors as 2008 Man of the Year and Man of Distinction.

Kennedy HS: 2006 Empire League Athlete of the Year ... In 2005, Empire League Co-MVP?in football as he led the Fighting Irish?to an 11-2 record and a league title ... First-team All-CIF and All-Orange County ... High school coach was Mitch Olson ... Also lettered in basketball and baseball ... Finished in top 10 in his class.

Personal: Son of Wendi and Stephen Olson ... Father played football at Minnesota-Duluth ... Brother, Ryan, played football for the Saarland Hurricanes in Germany ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences as an economics major.

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Historical Player Information

  • 17

    2008Junior

    QB
    6'0" 215 lbs
    17
  • 8

    2009Senior

    QB
    6'0" 215 lbs
    8