Marqise Lee Class: Sophomore Hometown: Inglewood High School: Serra Height / Weight: 6-0 / 190 Position: WR Birthdate: 11/25/1991 Experience: 1V

2012: The exciting, high-leaping Lee, a Biletnikoff Award candidate, returns for his second season as a starting wide receiver as a sophomore in 2012 after an outstanding debut campaign in 2011. He also will be used again as a returner. He also is competing on USC's track team.

2011: Lee emerged as a starting wide receiver as a freshman in 2011, his first year at USC, and had an all-star season. Overall in 2011 while starting 8 games (all but Syracuse, Arizona, Notre Dame, Oregon) and appearing in all 12 games, he had 73 catches for 1,143 yards (15.7 avg.) with 11 TDs, plus he had 5 carries for 33 yards (6.6 avg.) and 10 kickoff returns for 285 yards (28.5 avg.) with 1 TD. He also made a tackle. He was 15th nationally in receiving yards (95.3, fifth in Pac-12). His 11 TD catches were the most nationally by a freshman in 2011. Ten of his 11 TD catches in 2011 were at least 24 yards. His 73 receptions in 2011 were seventh on the USC season pass catching list (the second most by a Trojan freshman, behind Mike Williams' 81 in 2002). He had 4 100-yard receiving games in 2011. He and teammate Robert Woods each had at least 1,000 receiving yards in 2011, the fourth time that a pair of Trojans did that. Lee's and Woods' combined receptions (184) and receiving yards (2,435) in 2011 were the most by a pair of Trojans in a season. He made the 2011 Football Writers, Sporting News, CBSSports.com, CollegeFootballNews.com, FoxSportsNext.com, YahooSports.com and Phil Steele Freshman All-American first team. He was named the 2011 Pac-12 Freshman Offensive Co-Player of the Year and also made the All-Pac-12 second team. He was the 2011 CollegeFootballNews.com Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and CBSSports.com Pac-12 Co-Freshman of the Year. He made 2011 SI.com All-American honorable mention. He made the 2011 Phil Steele All-Pac-12 second team.

He had 5 catches for 32 yards against Minnesota, then had 2 catches for 34 yards and an 8-yard run off a reverse against Utah and 2 receptions for 63 yards (with a 43-yard TD) against Syracuse. He had 4 catches for 50 yards (with a 24-yard TD) and had an 8-yard run on a reverse at Arizona State, then against Arizona had 8 catches for 144 yards (both career highs) with a 38-yard TD (Woods' and Lee's 399 combined receiving yardage was the most in a game by a USC duo ever) and he also had a 26-yard kickoff return. He had 4 catches for 81 yards (including a 39-yard TD) before hurting his shoulder at California. He then had 2 catches for 36 yards at Notre Dame, 7 receptions for 94 yards with a 28-yard TD against Stanford and 9 catches for 124 yards and 2 TDs (33 and 25 yards) at Colorado, where he also had 2 runs for 13 yards and a 14-yard kickoff return. He had 9 receptions for 74 yards, with a 9-yard TD, and an 88-yard TD kickoff return against Washington to earn College Football Performance Awards National Kickoff Returner of the Week and Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week honors. He had 325 all-purpose yards at Oregon (8 catches for a career-high 187 yards, both game bests, with a 59-yard TD to open USC's scoring, plus 6 kickoff returns for 134 yards and a 4-yard run) to earn Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week, College Football Performance Awards National Wide Receiver of the Week and Rivals.com National Freshman of the Week honors. Against UCLA, he caught 13 catches for 224 yards (both game- and career-highs)-the catches tied the USC freshman game record and the yardage tied for sixth most in USC history-with 2 TDs (42 and 52 yards) to earn USC's Player of the Game versus UCLA Award as he and Woods became the first Trojan pair with at least 10 receptions in the same game and he also had a 23-yard kickoff return.

TRACK: He is a long jumper on USC's track team.

HIGH SCHOOL: His 2010 honors included Parade All-American, Super Prep All-American, Prep Star All-American, UnderArmour All-American, Max Preps All-American Medium Schools second team, ESPNU 150, Rivals 100, Prep Star Dream Team, Super Prep All-Farwest, Prep Star All-West, Orange County Register Fab 15 first team, Long Beach Press-Telegram Best in the West first team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, Max Preps All-State Division II first team, All-CIF Western Division Defensive MVP, SectionSports.com All-Southern Section second team, Los Angeles Times All-Star, South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay first team and All-Mission League Defensive MVP as a senior wide receiver and defensive back at Serra High in Gardena (Calif.). He had 57 receptions for 1,409 yards (24.7 avg.) with 24 TDs on offense in 2010 and 45 tackles, 3 interceptions and 11 deflections on defense. Serra went 14-1 in 2010, won the CIF Western Division title and played in the California state Division II championship game.

As a junior in 2009, he made South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay first team while getting 89 tackles (with a sack), 6 interceptions, 2 fumble recoveries and a forced fumble. Serra went 15-0 in 2009 and won the CIF Northwest Division title and the California state Division III championship. Current Trojans Robert Woods and George Farmer also prepped at Serra.

He also played basketball at Serra (he made the 2010 South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay first team) and was a sprinter and jumper on the track team (with a 2011 national prep No. 3 best 24-8 long jump, plus career bests of 44-7 in the triple jump, 6-4 in the high jump, 10.74 in the 100 meters and 22.11 in the 200 meters; he won the long jump and was second in the 100 at the 2011 CIF Division IV Meet, was third in the long and high jumps and fourth in the triple jump in the 2010 CIF Division IV Meet, was second in the long jump at the 2011 CIF Masters Meet and was second in the long jump at the 2011 California state meet). He was the 2010-11 Cal-Hi Sports Boys State Athlete of the Year and Cal-Hi Sports Boys Division IV Athlete of the Year.

GAME-BY-GAME WITH MARQISE LEE

2011