Gyo Shojima information

Gyo Shojima
	Shojima as a redshirt junior with UCLA in 2016
UCLA Bruins – No. 58
Position	Center
Class	Senior
Major	Geography and Environmental Studies
Personal information
Born:	August 18, 1993 (age 30); Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	300 lb (136 kg)
Career history
College	Santa Monica College (2013–2014); UCLA (2015–2018);
Bowl games	Foster Farms Bowl (2015); Cactus Bowl (2017);
High school	(Redondo Beach, CA) Redondo Union; (Suginami, Tokyo) Tokyo Nishi Metropolitan;

Tatsuaki Gyo Shojima (庄島辰尭 born August 18, 1993)^[1] is an American Football Center. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins as a walk-on student-athlete under head coach Jim Mora. As a redshirt junior, Shojima became the first Japanese-born student-athlete of full Japanese heritage, nationality and citizenship to play in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) game.^[2]^[3]

^ "UCLABruins.com | UCLA Athletics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
^ Bolch, Ben. "UCLA's Gyo Shojima is believed to be first Japanese-born player of full Japanese heritage to play in a major college football game". latimes.com. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
^ "Meet UCLA's Gyo Shojima: The first player of full Japanese heritage to play FBS football". SI.com. Retrieved 2018-03-29.

[:0-1] "UCLABruins.com | UCLA Athletics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved 2018-03-28.

[2] Bolch, Ben. "UCLA's Gyo Shojima is believed to be first Japanese-born player of full Japanese heritage to play in a major college football game". latimes.com. Retrieved 2018-03-29.

[3] "Meet UCLA's Gyo Shojima: The first player of full Japanese heritage to play FBS football". SI.com. Retrieved 2018-03-29.

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