2006: Second-team All-Pacific-10 honors, with first-team Academic All-Pac-10 citation to go with it. He had 89 tackles, plus team-best 10.5 tackles for loss including two sacks… Had interception at Oregon, recovered three fumbles to lead squad and forced two others, plus knocked down three passes… Will have been a starter at both ends of a seven-year span.

2005: Returned to Arizona after a Mormon mission and picked up where he left off, as a starter… Banged up in preseason and missed the first two games, but started the last six of his eight appearances, finishing with a linebacking corps’ high of 51 tackles including career-high 17 in Arizona’s victory at Oregon State… Earned second-team Academic All-Pac-10 honors in 2005… Returned to Arizona at mid-year in 2005, but was hurt early in spring and had knee surgery in April.

2004: On Mormon mission.

2003: On Mormon mission.

2002: As a true freshman, he played in all 12 games and showed great promise … Finished with 41 tackles including 3.5 for a loss and two sacks, plus broke up three passes ... Started seven games at the whip linebacker spot in UA’s modified eagle-flex system.

High School: Graduated from Gilbert, Ariz., High School. Had 124 tackles as a senior … Played quarterback on offense … All-Southeast Valley and all-region honors … Three letters in football, one in baseball and one in track.

Personal: Academic major is regional development… Larsen’s wife, Ann, gave birth to their first child, son Tyton, in April… Son of Richard and Teri Larsen of Gilbert … Spent 2003 and 2004 on a Mormon Mission in Chile …Father is a general contractor and mother is a homemaker … Mom is a 1977 Arizona State grad and also attended Mesa CC and BYU … Older sisters, Mindi, played volleyball at ASU in the mid 1990s, Candi at MCC … Mom played volleyball at MCC and BYU … Date of birth: March 4, 1984, in Mesa, Ariz.