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- Position Safety
- Class Graduate Student
- Ht./Wt. 5-11 / 210
- Hometown Cooksville, MD.
- Highschool Glenelg HS.
Wildcat Career
2024
- Appeared in 13 total games this season.
- Recorded season high 14 tackles at UCF.
- Recorded 10 total tackles against Holy Cross (9/7), at Elon (10/12), and vs Rhode Island (10/19).
- Recorded 10 tackles and an interception against UAlbany (11/2).
- Recorded first forced fumble and fumble recovery of the season against Monmouth.
- Recorded eight tackles against Stony Brook (11/16).
- Finished 2nd on the team in tackles (111.0) and 6th in the CAA.
AT YALE
2023: Named to 2024 NFF Hampshire Honor Society member … Phil Steele Ivy League First Team … New England Footall Writers All-New England Team … All-Ivy League First Team … 2023 William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist … ranked second on the team in tackles (55) … made one of the biggest plays of the season, knocking away a pass on fourth down in the second overtime to secure Yale’s win over Princeton and help Bulldogs go on to league championship … team captain …
2022: First team All-Ivy selection… Named to the New England Football Writers Association All-New England team…Tied for the team lead with 63 tackles… Had one sack and six tackles for a loss… Made 11 tackles and had a sack vs. Holy Cross… Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society.
2021: Earned All-Ivy Second Team…Placed third on the Bulldogs with 26 solo tackles and fourth with 47 total tackles…Finished a strong year as Yale’s top corner with eight pass breakups and two picks…Named to Ivy League Honor Roll on Oct. 30 as he had a game-high three pass breakups, led Yale with nine tackles and knocked away Columbia’s final pass attempt which sealed the victory for the Bulldogs.
2020: No season due to COVID-19.
2019: Served role as a reserve defensive back and special teamer.
At Yale, a computer science major who served as President of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, Eta Chapter … volunteer with Team Impact … in the summers of 2022 and 2021, he interned at GoDaddy, where he developed a front-end web application using JavaScript and created CI/CD pipeline leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, Helm and Docker.
During the pandemic, Owens was a Medical Assistant at First Call Urgent Care in Clarksville, Md., where he registered patients for Covid-19 testing. He also served as a courier for the Centennial Medical Group in Maryland, delivering Covid-19 tests from a testing site to a lab.
At Glenelg High School: Three-year varsity starter … 2x Howard County Offensive Player of the Year … Howard County career rushing leader … Second (behind Tavon Austin) among all Maryland runners in career yards … 6,361 career rushing yards and 82 TDs … Broke the Howard County single-season record with 2,504 rushing yards in 2016 … Broke county records with 2,687 rushing yards and 40 TDs in 2018 … Baltimore Sun First-Team All-Metro … Varsity Sports Network Offensive Player of the Year … USA Today Maryland Offensive Player of the Year … Played in the Big 33 All-Star Game … Varsity letters in basketball and track & field … Team captain in both … Glenelg Male Athlete of the Year … Glenelg Male Gladiator of the Year … National Honor Society … National Spanish Honor Society … National Math Honor Society
Personal: (Pronounced WAHN-day)… Son of Earl and Lorilyn Owens… Brother to Bruce Richardson, Blake Richardson, Brent Richardson, Bisi Owens and Abiola Owens … Father was a triple jumper at Brown University … Brother, Brent, played football at Towson University
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