Tavita Pritchard Last College: Stanford '09 Position: Defensive Assistant Experience: 2nd season

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Former Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard enters his first season on the Cardinal coaching staff as a defensive assistant after serving as a volunteer assistant in 2010.

A four-year letterwinner for the Cardinal from 2006-09, Pritchard appeared in 31 career games, including 20 starts, throwing for 2,865 yards and 15 touchdowns. He made his first career start against USC on Oct. 6, 2007 and engineered an epic, 24-23 upset of the second-ranked Trojans in the Los Angeles Coliseum. His 10-yard game-winning touchdown pass to Mark Bradford with 0:49 left in the game secured his spot in Stanford football lore.

Pritchard started all 12 games as a junior in 2008 and threw for 1,633 yards and 10 touchdowns, helping Stanford to a 5-7 record. He relinquished his starting duties to Andrew Luck for the 2009 campaign, seeing action in five games, including the Sun Bowl, where he returned to the starting quarterback role after Luck was ruled out of the game with an injury.
A native of Tacoma, Wash., Pritchard earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford in communications. He currently resides in Palo Alto.