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Ht: 6-2 Wt: 235 40: 4.5
Position: LB
Date of Birth: 01/20/1987
Birthplace: Eureka, CA
Year: Class of 2005
High School: Eureka Senior HS
(Eureka, CA)
College: USC

Early life
Maualuga was born in Oklahoma, to American Samoan parents. His father, Talatonu, was in Oklahoma serving with the United States Army. Within a few months the family moved to Waipahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu. While in sixth grade, Maualuga started playing football because he saw the popular kids played football and carried their pads and helmets to school. After sixth grade, his family moved to Oxnard, California as his father pursued Pentecostal ministry. He spent his first year of high school in nearby Ventura before moving up to Eureka in far Northern California where his father practiced ministry.

High school career
He attended St. Bonaventure High School in Ventura, California where he played with Lorenzo Booker. He moved to Eureka, California before his sophomore year where he played with Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Maurice Purify. His team, the Eureka High School Loggers completed their perfect 13-0 season with a North Coast Section championship at the Redwood Bowl during his junior year. That year he posted 146 tackles, 43 tackles for loss, 11 sacks and 1 interception. In his senior year he had 96 tackles, 37 tackles for loss, 4 interceptions (2 for TDs), -2 fumble recoveries and 1 kickoff return for a touchdown. Eureka went 20-2-1 during his junior and senior seasons. Following his senior season, Maualuga played in the 2005 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.

Maualuga plays college football for the University of Southern California. He wears number 58, which was previously worn by Lofa Tatupu who like Maualuga is also of Samoan descent.

Maualuga is a 2007 preseason Athlon and CBS Sportsline All-American and on the 2007 Bednarik Award, Lombardi Award and Bronko Nagurski Trophy watch lists and was considered a top choice for the 2008 NFL Draft. But he decided to stay for his senior year in college.

At the end of the 2007 regular season, Maualuga was selected to the All-Pacific 10 Conference first team for the second year in a row by league coaches.[2] He was the defensive player-of-the-game in the 2008 Rose Bowl.[3]

In 2006 he was nominated for the Butkus Award and second team All-Pac-10.

He made the 2005 Football Writers Association of America Freshman All-American first team and Scout.com Freshman All-American first team; also he won USC's John McKay Award (most competitive spirit).

Some NFL scouts have compared Maualuga to former Trojan and current Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu for his aggressive style of play at linebacker, although Polamalu played both positions at USC before switching to safety for the Steelers

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