CJ Woods

Height:
6-4
Weight:
230
Class:
Redshirt Freshman
Hometown:
Long Beach, CA
High School:
Brentwood School

2020 (Spring 2021) -- Redshirt.

High School -- Under head coach Jake Ford at Brentwood School, Woods was a tight end, wide receiver and defensive end ... during his senior season -- his only year of playing football -- caught 17 passes for 382 yards and seven touchdowns, including scoring receptions of 78 and 79 yards, and made 44 tackles (34 solo) on defense with 10 tackles for lost yardage, six sacks, a fumble recovery, a forced fumble and two pass breakups ... Eagles were 7-4 and qualified for the CIF-Southern Section Division 11 playoffs ... Woods also played basketball as a freshman, sophomore and junior, averaging 6.9 points and 4.8 rebounds per game ... scored 21 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in a game versus Knight and made the all-tournament team at the Mira Costa Tournament ... Woods is a four-year varsity athlete and helped Brentwood to CIF-Southern Section basketball titles in 2017 (Division 3AA) and 2018 (Division 2AA) ... the two teams combined for a 50-17 record and the 2017 team reached the state regional quarterfinals while the 2018 squad made it to the SoCal regional semifinals ... at Brentwood, played basketball against the sons of Shaquille O'Neal, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Kenyon Martin and received advise in football from DeSean Jackson and Julio Jones ... landed on school's Honor roll from 2018-20 ... served on the Belldegrun Center for Innovative Leadership Student Advisory Committee and Brentwood School Black Student's Alliance and was a Brentwood School Peer Leader ... also recruited by Harvard, Bucknell, Brown and San Diego, Woods chose to be a Mustang "because it felt like the right school for me. I'm really excited about the new coaching staff, the location and campus are beautiful, the proximity to Los Angeles is perfect and it has the majors I am interested in. Cal Poly really has everything I'm looking for in a school and athletic program."

Personal -- Son of Andy Woods Jr. and Nickey Hilbert-Woods ... father played basketball at Montana and Washington from 1990-95 while mother was a basketball player at UCLA from 1992-96 ... uncle Maurice Woods played basketball at Washington from 1990-94 while aunt Denise Woods played basketball at USC from 1996-2000 ... great uncle Frank Stephens played football at UCLA from 1974-78 while aunt Sina Hilbert played basketball at Georgia Southern from 200509 ... cousin Kayla Stephens played basketball at Alabama State from 2014-18 while cousin Torii Hilbert played football at La Verne and Tennessee-Chattanooga ... no siblings ... hobbies include producing music, playing video games and reading and studying aircraft ... wants to be an entrepreneur ... loves strawberry milk ... majoring in business administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship.