Da'Vaughn Mellerson Hometown: Baltimore, Md. High School: Mount Saint Joseph HS Event: Throws

FOOTBALL

• Played defensive tackle for the football team
• Saw action in nine games last season and started four
• Recorded 30 tackles and two sacks senior year
• Suffered a knee injury (MCL) seven games into the 1999 football season
• Redshirted the 1998 season after suffering knee injury (ACL) in the
• spring season

TRACK & FIELD

• Previously participated on the Wake Forest track team in the shot put
• and discus
• Finished sixth in the shot and eighth in the discus at the 1997 ACC
• Outdoor Championships

BACKGROUND

• Named MVP of track team senior year at Mt. St. Joseph High
• Earned all-state, all-city and all-metro honors in football
• Honored at high school graduation with "Outstanding Christian Gentleman"
• award
• Dean's List student
• Majoring in sociology
• Born Feb. 23, 1978