Steve Sarkisian Season 1995

After BYU

Started as the Head Football Coach for the University of Texas at Austin in 2021.

Career Summary

Steve Sarkisian transferred to BYU from El Camino College after setting a national junior college season record in passing percentage (.724) and pass efficiency (203.8). The Mission Conference Offensive Player of the Year and State of California Offensive Player of the Year went on to be named to the All-America Second Team by Football News while at BYU. Sarkisian won the Sammy Baugh Trophy from the Columbus Ohio Downtown Athletic Club. He was the Western Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year as a senior and earned All-WAC First Team honors. Sarkisian finished No. 1 nationally in pass efficiency at 173.56 and passed Steve Young's previous career pass completion percentage of .652 with his own record-setting career pass completion percentage of .672. His final 61 pass attempts of the season were without an interception.

Personal

• Born in Torrance, California
• Parents are Seb and Sally
• Older brother Dave was a three-time All-American in soccer at Cal-State Dominguez Hills
• Recruited by San Diego State, Washington State, Illinois, Kansas State, Fresno State and Baylor 
• Half-Armenian, half-Irish
• Likes to collect baseball caps
• Majoring in sociology

Before BYU

West Torrance High School

• Lettered twice in football and twice in baseball
• All-CIF in baseball with an 8-0 record as a pitcher with a 1.32 ERA
• Batted .446 with 37 RBI and four homers
• Broke nine records in football as a senior
• Team MVP in football, All-CIF and All-Daily Breeze
• Team won Pioneer League Championship

El Camino College

• Set the school record for 4,232 yards total offense and 4,297 passing yards, 41 touchdown passes in the 1994 season
• Set school records for 645 yards passing in one game and 7,274 career passing yards (occurred in a 59-48 loss vs. College of the Desert in the 1994 Southern California Bowl)
• Completed 42-of-67 with two interceptions and four TD passes in the bowl game
• Completed 228-of-315 with eight interceptions in 1994
• Team finished in a three-way tie for the Mission Conference title
• Set a national junior college season record in passing percentage (.724) and pass efficiency (203.8)
• Selected as Mission Conference Offensive Player of the Year and all-conference
• State of California Offensive Player of the Year
• First-team All-America by J.C. Gridwire Magazine and the J.C. Athletic Bureau
• Two-time team MVP
• Team finished with a 9-2 record

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