Freddie Tagaloa is the only Viking who can say he’s 6-8, 316 pounds, once bench-pressed a University of Arizona school-record 475 pounds and just got out of San Quentin.
“My first day on the yard, some guys got into a fight,” Tagaloa said. “And I believe someone got stabbed.”
No, Tagaloa isn’t a criminal. He’s a criminal justice major whose 3.0 grade-point average includes a five-month internship at the famous California state prison, where his father, Sakaria, worked as a guard for 25 years and eight months before retiring last year.
Tagaloa’s dream job is forensic accounting.