2024 Football Roster
Shakobe Harper
- Height:
- 5-7
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Long Beach, CA
- High School:
- Mater Dei HS
2023-- Missed the 2023 season due to injury.
2022 -- Rushed for 307 yards on 87 carries, scoring once on a four-yard run against Sacramento State ... earned first 100-yard game rushing with 106 yards on 11 carries against South Dakota ... season-high 18 carries versus Sacramento State, finishing with 64 yards ... also caught 16 passes for 94 yards ... career-high four receptions in South Dakota game.
2021 -- Played in eight games with five starts, missing final three games of season due to injury ... rushed for 251 yards and three touchdowns on 82 carries, averaging 3.1 yards per carry ... scored touchdowns against San Diego, Montana and Montana State ... season-high 97 yards rushing versus Montana State, including a season-long 26-yard run ... carried the ball 13 or 14 times in four consecutive games ... also caught 11 passes for 71 yards ... season-high three receptions versus both Montana and Portland State ... longest catch was 31 yards from Spencer Brasch against UC Davis.
2020-21 -- Did not play in any games due to injury.
2019 -- Redshirt.
High School -- Harper's 1,272 yards rushing and 19 receptions helped Mater Dei claim the California state Open Division championship last fall at Cerritos College ... under legendary head coach Bruce Rollinson, Harper averaged 85 yards per game and 7.0 yards per carry for the Monarchs, who finished 13-2 overall, was runner-up in the Trinity League and captured the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 title with a 17-13 triumph over St. John Bosco ... rushed for 122 yards and three touchdowns in the 35-21 win over De La Salle in the state title game, Mater Dei's second consecutive state title ... Harper earned first-team All-Trinity League honors three times and also landed on CalHi Sports all-state team three times ... also earned All-CIF-Southern Section Division 1 and second-team All-Orange County honors last fall ... rushed for over 100 yards six times as a senior, including a career-best 162 yards on just 13 carries and two touchdowns in the 2018 season opener against Bishop Amat ... also rushed for 999 yards and 15 touchdowns as a junior and 660 yards and 14 scores as a sophomore, giving him 2,931 career yards (No. 2 all-time at Mater Dei) and 49 touchdowns on the ground ... averaged 7.1 yards per carry and surpassed the 100-yard mark 12 times ... also caught 59 passes for 681 yards and six touchdowns in his Mater Dei career, giving him 55 career prep scores, also No. 2 all-time at Mater Dei ... winner of the team's scholar-athlete and John Huante awards, Harper chose to continue his football and academic careers at Cal Poly because "on my official visit, it felt like home."
Personal -- Son of Glenn and Anquinet Harper ... two brothers, Tank and Kris, and one sister, Anaya ... claims to be a sneaker head ... born in Long Beach, Calif. ... majoring in communication studies.
