Sean McDonald

Height:
6-4
Weight:
290
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
San Mateo, CA
High School:
Hillsdale HS

Community College -- McDonald twice earned first-team All-NorCal Football Conference honors as an offensive tackle, was named to the all-state team as a sophomore and helped City College of San Francisco to its second straight state championship game. The Rams, 10-2 overall and NorCal Football Conference tri-champions, fell 35-14 to Bakersfield College in December. McDonald, a team captain last fall, will be a junior at Cal Poly in 2013 and has not used a redshirt year. He visited Connecticut and New Mexico State before deciding to be a Mustang.

High School -- A 2011 graduate of Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, where he led the Knights of head coach Mike Parodi Jr. to a 6-4 mark in 2010 and a second-place tie in the Peninsula-Lake League. McDonald earned first-team All-Peninsula-Lake League honors for the second time and was named the league's offensive lineman of the year in 2010. He also landed on the All-San Mateo County first team. McDonald also was a pitcher on the baseball team at Hillsdale and competed on the track and field team with personal bests of 42-2 in the shot put and 114-3 1/2 in the discus. He was recruited by Appalachian State, Sacramento State, Connecticut, Memphis, Nevada, New Mexico State, Florida Atlantic, Texas-San Antonio and San Jose State, choosing Cal Poly "to become a part of a successful football program with a great coaching staff and to give myself the opportunity of a great education in the beautiful town of San Luis Obispo."

Personal -- Son of Michael and Stacey McDonald ... one brother, Ryan, and one sister, Megan ... born April 9, 1993, in Redwood City, Calif. ... majors in sociology.