*** 2017 Honors Candidate ***

Career: Entering his final year as an Eagle, Havili has 148 tackles in his 42-game Eastern career. With 16 career starts, he has the fifth-most on the defense and overall. He started twice in 2014 as a linebacker before a knee injury forced him to redshirt in the 2015 season. His injury occurred in the first padded practice in spring of 2015 right after he moved from linebacker to defensive end. He set an EWU true freshman record with 61 tackles in 2013. He’s played in eight career games in the FCS Playoffs (2013, 2014, 2016) and has 34 tackles, three sacks, one interception returned 77 yards for a TD and a forced fumble. 2017: Listed as a starter at field end on the preseason depth chart. He had 12 tackles in three spring scrimmages to rank third on the defense.

2016: Havili started all 14 games as EWU’s field defensive end. A former linebacker, Havili had 61 tackles with five sacks from his defensive end position, with two passes broken up and a team-high eight quarterback hurries. He made his first career start as a defensive end against Washington State (9/3/16) in EWU’s 45-42 victory and finished with six tackles versus the Cougars. He had a season-high eight tackles against Northern Arizona (9/24/16) to earn co-team defensive player of the week honors, and also had seven in the FCS Playoffs against Central Arkansas (12/3/16). Three of his five sacks came in EWU’s next two playoff games versus Richmond (12/10/16) when he had two and against Youngstown State (12/17/16) when he had one. One of his most productive games came versus Idaho State (11/12/16) when he had five tackles, a half-sack, two passes broken up and two quarterback hurries to earn team defensive player of the week honors.

2015: Moved to defensive line in the spring, but missed most of spring practices with a knee injury. He eventually missed the entire 2015 season as well.

2014: Played in 13 of Eastern’s games, including two as a starter. Made the first start of his career against Idaho State (10/4/14) when EWU started the game in a “dime” package against the pass-happy Bengals. He also started the next game versus Southern Utah (10/11/14). Havili had season highs of five tackles against Montana Western (8/30/14) and Montana State (9/20/14). He and fellow linebacker Miquiyah Zamora were the leading tacklers in three spring scrimmages with a total of 14 each.

2013: Played in all 15 games as a backup linebacker, and set a record for an Eastern true freshman with 61 tackles. He broke the previous record of 54 set by Joey Cwik in 2002. He had 13 tackles versus Toledo (9/14/13) in the third collegiate game of his career and eight against Cal Poly (11/16/13). He also returned an interception 77 yards for a touchdown in the FCS Playoffs against Jacksonville State (12/14/13). Three times he earned EWU’s special teams player of the week award, first against Western Oregon (9/7/13) and then versus Cal Poly (11/16/13) and Jacksonville State.

HS: Graduated from Federal Way HS in 2013. He was selected to the Tacoma News Tribune All-State team as an offensive lineman and as one of only 12 players selected to the offense. Havili was chosen to the Associated Press 4A All-State squad as a first team linebacker. He was named by the Seattle Times as a “White Chip” selection as one of the top 100 prospects in the state of Washington. WashingtonPreps.com selected him as one of 193 players on its “Best of the Northwest” list of recruits. He was a member of the Seattle Times “Star Times” All-Area team from schools in King and Snohomish counties, and was also chosen to the Tacoma News Tribune All-Area squad. Prior to the season, Havili was named to the Seattle Times preseason All-State team for all classifications as a linebacker. Also selected to Ron Siegel’s pre-season All-State team (seniors only). In addition, he was named 4A South Puget Sound League Offensive Lineman of the Year and Linebacker of the Year and was a first team all-league selection as a both an offensive lineman and linebacker. He and fellow EWU signee D’londo Tucker helped lead Federal Way to an 11-1 record and a South Puget Sound League South Division regular season championship (8-0). Federal Way won 11-straight games before losing to Camas 65-32 in the quarterfinals of the State 4A Playoffs. Prior to that, the Eagles defeated Rogers (Puyallup) 46-28 in the playoffs. As a junior, he was a first team All-SPSL South Division selection as both an offensive lineman and linebacker. He helped the Eagles finish 10-1 overall and a perfect 8-0 in the league. Federal Way lost 21-11 to Eastlake in the first round of the State 4A Playoffs. Havili was also an outstanding track and field athlete, and is the holder of the Federal Way school record in the discus (178-7). He finished third in the discus as both a senior (167-5) and junior (164-6) at the WIAA State 4A Championships, and sixth as a sophomore (155-11). Current Eagles D’londo Tucker (’13) and Jay-Tee Tiuli (’14), as well as former EWU teammates Andru Pulu (’09) and Jordan Pulu (’12), also graduated from Federal Way.

Personal: Communication studies major. Born 8/7/95 in Laie, Hawaii. His parents are Taniela and Telvsila Havili. Last name is pronounced “hah-vee-lee.”
 

Year	GP	TT	Hi	S	TL-Yds	FF-FR	PBU	I-Yds
2013	15	61	13	0	1-2	1-0	1	1-77t
2014	13	26	5	0	1-2	0-0	0	0-0
2016	14	61	8	0	8-23	0-0	2	0-0
Totals	42	148	13	5	10-27	1-0	3	1-77t

 
ALBERT HAVILI Top Tackling Performances (1 with 10+)
13 tackles – Toledo - 9/14/13
8 tackles – Northern Arizona – 9/24/16
8 tackles – Cal Poly – 11/16/13