2017 Football Roster
Roster
Oluwole Betiku Jr.
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 250
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Lagos, Nigeria
- High School:
- Serra HS
@oluwolebetiku
@kingwolehoudini
CAREER: He has 2 tackles (0.5 for loss) while appearing in 14 games in his career.
2018: Betiku will battle for playing time at outside linebacker as a junior in 2018. He missed 2018 spring practice while recovering from off-season hip surgery.
2017: Betiku served as a backup outside linebacker as a sophomore in 2017. Overall in 2017 while seeing action in 9 games (all but Stanford, Utah, Arizona, Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game and Ohio State), he had 2 tackles, including 0.5 for a loss. He had a tackle each against Texas and California (with the 0.5 for a loss).
2016: Betiku, who enrolled at USC in the spring of 2016 after graduating a semester early from high school, saw limited action in 5 games (Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon, Notre Dame) as a reserve defensive end as a first-year freshman in 2016, but he did not make a tackle. He won USC’s 2016 Defensive Service Team Player of the Year Award.
HIGH SCHOOL: He made 2015 Prep Star All-American Dream Team, Max Preps All-American first team, Maxwell Club National Player of the Year finalist, Orange County Register Fab 15 first team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, USA Today All-California Defensive Player of the Year, Cal-Hi Sports State Defensive Player of the Year, Cal-Hi Sports All-State first team, All-CIF Pac 5 Division, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket All-CIF Defensive Player of the Year, Los Angeles Times All-Area first team, South Bay Daily Breeze Defensive Player of the Year and All-Mission League Lineman of the Year as a senior defensive end at Serra High in Gardena (Calif.). He had 70 tackles, including 28 for losses (with 17 sacks), plus 2 forced fumbles in 2015.
As a junior in 2014, he made Cal-Hi Sports All-State Junior first team, All-CIF Pac 5 Division, South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay first team and All-Mission League Co-Lineman of the Year as he had 59 tackles, including 24 for losses (with 11.5 sacks), 2 deflections and a forced fumble. Current Trojans John Houston Jr. and C.J. Pollard also prepped at Serra.
He attended Bishop McNamara High in Forestville (Md.) as a 2013 sophomore, but did not play football there.
PERSONAL: He is an international relations major at USC. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria and participated in soccer and boxing. He moved to the United States when he was a sophomore in high school. He is the second Trojan football letterman from Nigeria (joining outside linebacker Israel Ifeanyi, who lettered in 1994-95).
