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2009 Football

40 Owen Thomas

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 225
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Parkland

Biography

2009: Second-Team All-Ivy ... Started all 10 games on Penn's defensive line ... Penn finished the season ranked No. 1 in the nation in total defense and scoring defense ... Penn was tops in the Ivy League in every major defensive category ... Led team and finished second in the Ivy League in sacks with six ... Had at least a partial sack in seven different games ... Finished with 29 tackles and 8.0 tackles for loss ... Season-best eight tackles in win over Bucknell (Oct. 10).

2008: Appeared and started in all 10 games for the Quakers at defensive end ... Recorded ten tackles on the season, including six solo ... Had at least one tackle in all but two games ... Had two tackles each at Lafayette (Sept. 27), vs. Columbia (Oct. 18) and vs. Harvard (Nov. 15) ... Both tackles at Lafayette were solo stops. 

2007: Did not see any varsity game action.

Parkland HS: Three-year letterwinner and two-year captain ... All-area and all-league as a junior and senior ... Earned all-league as both a tight end and linebacker ... Led team to two conference titles ... High School Heisman nominee ... LVIAC Scholar-Athlete nominee ... National Honor Society member.

Personal: Born in Allentown, Pa. ... Son of Katherine Brearley and Thomas Thomas ... Older brother, Matt, played football at Penn and graduated in 2002 ... Brother, Morgan, played football at East Stroudsburg ... Enrolled in Wharton.

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Historical Player Information

  • 46

    2007Freshman

    DE
    6'2" 225 lbs
    46
  • 40

    2008Sophomore

    DE
    6'2" 225 lbs
    40
  • 40

    2009Junior

    DE
    6'2" 225 lbs
    40