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Jersey Number 5
Wande Owens
- Position:
- Safety
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-11 / 210
- Hometown:
- Cooksville, Md.
- High School:
- Glenelg / Yale
Bio
Wildcat Career
2024
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
UNH Football vs Holy Cross Highlights 9-6-25
Sunday, September 07
UNH Football vs Stony Brook Highlights 11-16-24
Sunday, November 17
UNH Football vs Monmouth Highlights 11-9-24
Saturday, November 09
UNH Football vs Rhode Island Highlights 10-19-24
Sunday, October 20
