Arizona: Will vie for the starting QB position.
High School: St. Augustine High School, San Diego, Calif., 2003... UA sought a pro-style quarterback from the West coast and lured Kovalchek away from several other noted `QB' schools... Completed his senior season for coach Jerry Ralph with 2,600 yards passing and 19 touchdowns in leading St. Augustine to the CIF San Diego Section championship game... Threw for more than 7,000 yards and 70 touchdowns in his career at St. Augustine High School... on defense his senior year... Earned Best in the West second-team honors from the Long Beach Press-Telegram, with six votes... Prep Football Report All-America... Tacoma News-Tribune Western 100... PrepStar All-West... SuperPrep All-Farwest, No. 47... First-team All-Eastern League... All-San Diego Section second-team honors from the San Diego Union-Tribune... Rivals.com four-star rating, Rivals California 100 listing at No. 35, and Student Sports theinsiders.com rating as the No. 11 QB... Tom Lemming's Prep Football Report Top 100, and listed as the No. 11 QB... Right knee injury slowed his career in 2001... Played in Global Junior Championship game for team USA in come-from-behind 28-21 victory... Four-year Honor Roll student, with advanced placement studies in English and mathematics... National Football Foundation/Hall of Fame scholar-athlete honors his senior year, with a 3.66 grade point average... Union Tribune All-Academic Athletic Award...Distinguished Student honor at annual Principal's Banquet... More than 100 hours of community service working with disabled children.
