Palo Verde, UA grad Victor Yates to continue career as a Sun Devil

In 2005, Palo Verde High quarterback Victor Yates led the Titans to the state football championship. Incredibly, Yates didn’t complete a pass but was resourceful enough to win a championship. He then became a walk-on defensive back at Arizona for five seasons. Yates was a finalist for the Rudy Award in 2010, an honor emblematic of 1975 walk-on Notre Dame quarterback Rudy Ruettiger, about whom the inspirational movie “Rudy” was made. After leaving Arizona, Yates was hired by UT-San Antonio as an athletic department fund-raiser. At a 2014 Arizona-UTSA game in San Antonio, Yates told me his goal is to be a major-college athletic director. He took a big step in that direction last week when he was hired by ASU to be an assistant athletic director in charge of major gifts for the Sun Devils. He is an impressive young man. 

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