Who is Tua Tagovailoa?
American football quarterback Tua Tagovailoa plays for the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins.
Tua Tagovailoa bio
The oldest of a Samoan family’s four children, Tagovailoa was born in Ewa Beach, Hawaii to Galu and Diane Tagovailoa.
He was believed to have had a strong passion for football as a young child, as evidenced by his parents’ observation that he would sleep with a football under his arm every night.
Tua Tagovailoa career
He regularly threw throws of more than 30 yards during Pop Warner games when he was eight years old, when his peers could usually only throw a football a little more than 10 yards.
He played collegiate football at Alabama, where he won the Maxwell and Walter Camp Awards as a sophomore and was the Offensive MVP of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship during his freshman season.
In the 2020 NFL Draft, the Dolphins selected Tagovailoa fifth overall after a hip injury ended his junior season. Prior to taking over as the team’s regular starter in 2021, he alternated between starting and backup roles during his first season.
In his debut season of varsity football in high school, Tagovailoa passed for 33 passing touchdowns, three interceptions, and 2,583 passing yards.
When asked about his sources of motivation, Tagovailoa cited his father’s use of a belt as a major source of inspiration and motivation.
In 2016, Tagovailoa participated in the All-American Bowl[8] and threw for 2,669 yards, 27 passing touchdowns, and seven interceptions during the regular season.
As one of the top high school quarterbacks in the country, he was also selected for the Elite 11 roster, where he was honored as the team’s MVP.
During the 2017 recruiting cycle, Tagovailoa received a four-star rating and was named the top high school talent in the state of Hawaii.
He went to Saint Louis School in Honolulu, the same institution as quarterback Marcus Mariota, the 2014 Heisman Trophy winner and Atlanta Falcons, who was a mentor to him when they were young in Hawaii.
Before deciding to enroll at the University of Alabama in January 2017, he had 17 scholarship offers to play college football.
Tua Tagovailoa parents: Meet Galu and Diane
Galu and Diane Tagovailoa are Tua Tagovailoa’s parents. They reared Tua and his siblings on Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and are of Samoan origin.
Both of Tua’s parents have shown a great deal of support for his football career and have been to many of his games, including those he played in while still in college at the University of Alabama and in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins.
Tua has frequently given credit to his parents for instilling in him strong morals and a work ethic, and they play a significant role in his life off the field as well.
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