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2024 Football Roster
Jersey Number 4
Tamatoa Falatea
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 210
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Hau'ula, Hawaii
- High School:
- Punahou School
2024: Appeared in four games, corralling four catches for 40 yards.
2023: Put up 20 catches for 244 yards and two touchdowns … Caught the team’s first touchdown of the season at San Diego (Sept. 16) … Went for five receptions, 105 yards, adding a 77-yard touchdown at Cornell (Oct. 28).
Before Princeton:
Punahou School – Rated as the state of Hawai’i’s top wide receiver ... Earned first-team all-state honors (Honolulu Star-Advertiser, KHON Cover2, Scoringlive.com and USA Today) and earned all-league first-team honors ... Had 74 receptions for 1,057 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior at Punahou School … Played in 2019 Polynesian Bowl, finished with four receptions for 52 yards and a touchdown ... Lettered four times in basketball, three times in football, and one time in track and field ... Helped the Punahou basketball team to four consecutive state championship appearances, highlighted by a 2017 HHSAA state title … Won the 2018 HHSAA track and field state championship.
Personal – Son of Mary and Lester Falatea... has a younger sister, Ta’uhere, and two older brothers, Steven and Lutena ... After freshman year, served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Chiapas, Mexico.
2023: Put up 20 catches for 244 yards and two touchdowns … Caught the team’s first touchdown of the season at San Diego (Sept. 16) … Went for five receptions, 105 yards, adding a 77-yard touchdown at Cornell (Oct. 28).
Before Princeton:
Punahou School – Rated as the state of Hawai’i’s top wide receiver ... Earned first-team all-state honors (Honolulu Star-Advertiser, KHON Cover2, Scoringlive.com and USA Today) and earned all-league first-team honors ... Had 74 receptions for 1,057 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior at Punahou School … Played in 2019 Polynesian Bowl, finished with four receptions for 52 yards and a touchdown ... Lettered four times in basketball, three times in football, and one time in track and field ... Helped the Punahou basketball team to four consecutive state championship appearances, highlighted by a 2017 HHSAA state title … Won the 2018 HHSAA track and field state championship.
Personal – Son of Mary and Lester Falatea... has a younger sister, Ta’uhere, and two older brothers, Steven and Lutena ... After freshman year, served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Chiapas, Mexico.
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