Arizona: RS... Expected to challenge Nic Costa for the starting job at quarterback entering the 2003 season... Impressive showing during 2003 spring drills... Completed 32-of-49 passes for 453 yards and seven touchdowns in three scrimmages throughout the spring session... Had his best showing in the third scrimmage, as he completed 10-of-11 passes for 187 yards and four touchdowns... Redshirted for the Wildcats in 2002 and worked with the first-team offense during fall practice... Made the traveling squad for each of Arizona's road games... One of the background keys to Arizona's 2002 recruiting efforts was the early commitment (June 2001) made by quarterback O'Hara, who formed the cornerstone of John Mackovic's first full-fledged class at Arizona.
High School: Muir High School, Pasadena, Calif., 2002... A Nike and Student Sports Elite Quarterback summer camps participant, among others... He opened the year in the USA Today National Top 125 picked by Max Emfinger, and finished in the same vein, as a top-grade QB among Emfinger's drop-back Top 10... He completed 110 passes in 189 attempts (.582) for 1,560 yards and 16 touchdowns, with five interceptions, plus had three rushing touchdowns...Also passed or ran for seven 2-point PATs... Earned PrepStar All-America honors as the No. 7 prospect on its All-West team... SuperPrep All-Farwest honors as the No. 88 prospect in the three-state region... Received three votes in the Long Beach Press-Telegram Best in the West list of senior prep players from Pac-10 states... Tom Lemming's Prep Football Report No. 41 prospect in the six-state All-West region... All-conference and all-area honors each of the last two seasons... Rivals100.com three-star rating as a dual-threat quarterback, with 4.65 speed... Career marks of 3,950 passing yards and 43 touchdowns (231-428, 54%), plus a QB-of-record mark of 23-9-3... Student Sports Elite 25 quarterback rating... Athlon pre-season Top 20 quarterback prospect... Fab50recruiting.com Top 50, one of only four QBs... Team captain junior and senior seasons... Tacoma News Tribune Western 100... Four-year letterman in both football and basketball... Fox Sports Student-Athlete of the Week honors his senior year... Principal's Honor Roll for academics, and carried a 4.0 his junior year.
