University of Arizona Athletics

Arizona: IL... Expected to challenge for the starting job at quarterback entering the 2004 season... Played in five games and earned the starting nod at Purdue during the 2003 season... Split duty with Nic Costa during the first three games of the season... Lettered as a forward on UA basketball team in 2003-04... Completed 33-of-78 passes for a 42.3 percent completion rate... Threw for 341 yards and had four interceptions and two touchdowns... Finished the season with a pass efficiency rating of 77.24... Completed career-long 79-yard touchdown pass to Lance Relford in the UTEP game... Saw duty at wide receiver and on the field goal/PAT kick-block team in the last few games of the season... Earned limited play at wide receiver in the Wildcats’ game against ASU and caught one pass for six yards... Completed 7-of-15 passes for 39 yards and had one interception in the first two quarters at Purdue... Completed 11-of-27 passes for 113 yards and hit Biren Ealy for a 53-yard touchdown strike in the game’s final minutes... Completed 7-of-20 passes for 70 yards and had one interception vs. LSU... Completed 8-of-16 passes for 119 yards and had two interceptions and a touchdown in the season opener vs. UTEP... 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...

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... Solid academics and a standout guard on Muir’s basketball team... 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 percent), 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...

Personal: Academic major is communication... Son of John and Robin O’Hara of Glendora, Calif... Father attended Iowa State, and Mother attended ISU and graduated from Pittsburgh... Father is a bloodstock agent, and Mother is a homemaker... Older brother, J.P., was a track hurdler... Grandfather, Gary Hulst, played basketball at Iowa State, and grandfather, Phil O’Hara, played basketball at Georgetown... Likes playing basketball, hanging out with friends, impersonating people and video games... Says his little brother, Dustin, is his biggest fan... Full name Ryan Alan O’Hara... Date of birth: Sept. 1, 1983, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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