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== College ==

== College ==

 

After graduating Brady was selected as a catcher by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball draft. His first love was football, however, and later in the year he enrolled at the [[University of Michigan]] to continue his career on the gridiron. At the university he majored in organizational studies and played for the Wolverines, the school football team. During his first two seasons, Brady mainly practiced with the team, learning the offensive system and studying the way the game was played at the college level, and appeared briefly in a total of six games. In his sophomore year he watched from the sidelines as the Wolverines' starting quarterback, [[Brian Griese]], led Michigan to the college football national championship. In 1998, his junior year and his first as the team's starting quarterback, Brady threw for 2,636 yards (the second-most in school history) and 15 touchdowns while completing 61 percent of his passes. He set school single-season records for pass attempts (350) and completions (214) and was named an All-Big Ten Conference honorable mention. (Along with the University of Michigan, the Big Ten Conference includes the state universities of [[Iowa]], [[Illinois]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Indiana]], among others.) An excellent student, Brady was named an Academic All-Big Ten Pick. Though he shared the starting-quarterback spot at the beginning of the 1999 season, his senior year, with the highly touted newcomer [[Drew Henson]], Brady still managed to throw for 2,586 yards and 20 touchdowns while completing an outstanding 63 percent of his passes. (Brady has credited his fierce competition with Henson with helping to make him tougher mentally and inspiring him to improve as a player.) For that effort he received All-Big Ten Conference second-team honors. In the final game of his college career, Brady gave a superlative performance (369 yards passing and four touchdowns), leading the Wolverines to victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Orange Bowl. Brady's career record as the starting quarterback at Michigan was an impressive 20-5. He ranks third in school history in pass attempts (710) and completions (442); fourth in passing yards (5,351) and completion percentage (62.3); and fifth in touchdown passes (35).

After graduating Brady was selected as a catcher by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball draft. His first love was football, however, and later in the year he enrolled at the [[University of Michigan]] to continue his career on the gridiron. At the university he majored in organizational studies and played for the Wolverines, the school football team. During his first two seasons, Brady mainly practiced with the team, learning the offensive system and studying the way the game was played at the college level, and appeared briefly in a total of six games. In his sophomore year he watched from the sidelines as the Wolverines' starting quarterback, [[Brian Griese]], led Michigan to the college football national championship. In 1998, his junior year and his first as the team's starting quarterback, Brady threw for 2,636 yards (the second-most in school history) and 15 touchdowns while completing 61 percent of his passes. He set school single-season records for pass attempts (350) and completions (214) and was named an All-Big Ten Conference honorable mention. (Along with the University of Michigan, the Big Ten Conference includes the state universities of [[Iowa]], [[Illinois]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Indiana]], among others.) An excellent student, Brady was named an Academic All-Big Ten Pick. Though he shared the starting-quarterback spot at the beginning of the 1999 season, his senior year, with the highly touted newcomer [[Drew Henson]], Brady still managed to throw for 2,586 yards and 20 touchdowns while completing an outstanding 63 percent of his passes. (Brady has credited his fierce competition with Henson with helping to make him tougher mentally and inspiring him to improve as a player.) For that effort he received All-Big Ten Conference second-team honors. In the final game of his college career, Brady gave a superlative performance (369 yards passing and four touchdowns), leading the Wolverines to victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Orange Bowl. Brady's career record as the starting quarterback at Michigan was an impressive 20-5. He ranks third in school history in pass attempts (710) and completions (442); fourth in passing yards (5,351) and completion percentage (62.3); and fifth in touchdown passes (35).