18  Dax Crum
	Class: Senior Hometown: Phoenix, Ariz. High School: Horizon Last College: Mesa CC, Ariz. Height / Weight: 6-4 / 219 Position: Quarterback

UW This Season: Dax Crum enters the 2010 season listed No. 2 on the depth chart at quarterback behind sophomore Austyn Carta-Samuels. Crum was the No. 2 quarterback throughout `10 spring drills. He will compete for the backup quarterback job when 2010 fall camp begins.

2009: Crum was a reserve quarterback throughout the 2009 season. He did not see any game action during his junior season.

2008: Crum started the `08 season as the Cowboys' starting quarterback -- a position he maintained through the first five games of the season. He played in eight out of Wyoming's 12 games on the year, completing 53 of 101 pass attempts (52.5 percent) for 429 yards, six touchdowns and only two interceptions. He threw for a season high 119 yards at BYU. In two Wyoming victories, he completed over 60 percent of his passes. Those two games were against Ohio (14 of 22 for 63.6 percent) and against North Dakota State (11 of 17 for 64.7 percent). Crum transferred to the University of Wyoming for the 2008 spring semester after having an outstanding 2007 season at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Ariz. He earned Academic All-Conference honors for the first time in his Wyoming career.

Junior College: Crum earned Honorable Mention National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-America honors while leading Mesa to a 9-2 record and a No. 8 national ranking in the Final 2007 NJCAA/JC Football.com Poll. He was named the NJCAA Co-Region I Offensive Player of the Year, and also was selected First Team All-Western States Football League. Mesa defeated Fort Scott Community College of Kansas by a score of 47-31 in the Valley of the Sun Bowl to conclude the 2007 season. That bowl appearance marked the first for Mesa in 11 seasons. Crum helped turn around a team that was 2-7 in 2006. As a team, Mesa was fifth in the country in passing yards (230.7 yards per game) and was 10th in total offense (391.3 yards per game). Crum averaged 227.6 yards passing per game to rank No. 6 in the nation in passing. He averaged 222.8 yards of total offense, which placed him No. 11 in the nation individually. He completed 149 of 244 passes (61.1 percent) for 2,807 yards, 23 touchdowns and only six interceptions. In the bowl victory over Fort Scott, he completed 22 of 29 pass attempts (75.9 percent) for 386 yards, four touchdowns and only one interception, while earning the game's Most Valuable Player honors. He played for head coach Dan Dunn at Mesa. Coming out of Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., Crum was an outstanding student. He continued that at Mesa Community College, earning a 3.8 grade-point average in junior college. After his outstanding sophomore season at Mesa, he was recruited by Colorado State, Louisville, Pittsburgh and Washington State.

2006: Redshirted as a member of the Arizona State University football team.

High School: His senior year at Horizon High School, he completed 168 of 322 passes (52.2 percent) for 2,460 yards and 23 TDs. The Horizon Huskies posted a 10-2 record his senior season as Crum was named First Team All-State and the Desert Valley Region Player of the Year. He concluded his high school career throwing for 4,009 yards and 41 touchdowns. Coming out of high school, he was recruited by Arizona State, California, New Mexico and UNLV. He ended up walking on at Arizona State and redshirting his freshman year of 2006, before transferring to Mesa Community College for the 2007 season.

Personal: The son of Kim and Bob Crum, his father, Bob, was a defensive end at the University of Arizona and with the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL in the early 1970s. Crum is majoring in electrical engineering at UW.