QB with ties to Rolovich joins Warriors

Cole Brownholtz, a quarterback from Sierra College in Rocklin, Calif., will join the University of Hawaii football team next month.

“It’s a great situation,” said Brownholtz, who will enroll in UH’s Summer Session II and participate in training camp.

Brownholtz is 6 feet 4 and 200 pounds. He is capable of throwing a football 70 yards.

As a freshman, Brownholtz completed 68 percent of his passes in league games in 2015, his only season at Sierra. He will have four years to play three UH seasons.

Two summers ago, Brownholtz participated in Nevada’s football camp for high school players. UH head coach Nick Rolovich was the Wolf Pack’s offensive coordinator at the time. Brownholtz and Rolovich have remained in contact since then.

“Me and Coach Rolovich have a really good relationship,” Brownholtz said.

On joining the Rainbow Warriors, Brownholtz said: “It’s kind of a clean slate. Me and him are kind of coming the same year. And (Hawaii has) a great offense.”

Last year, Sierra ran an “Air Raid” offense, which is an offshoot of the four-wide scheme the Warriors used when Rolovich was a UH quarterback and offensive coordinator.

Brownholtz’s father played center at Georgia. An uncle, Billy Volek, was a quarterback who played 12 NFL seasons.

Football is “kind of in the blood,” Brownholtz said.

Brownholtz will be the fourth quarterback to join the Warriors this summer. Cole McDonald, a freshman from Sonora High in La Habra, Calif., is enrolled in UH’s bridge session that began Monday. Dru Brown, who played at College of San Mateo last year, and Kyle Gallup, who was at Marshall in 2015, are set to report to training camp on July 31.

The returning quarterbacks are senior Ikaika Woolsey, third-year sophomore Beau Reilly and second-year freshman Aaron Zwahlen.

The Warriors open training camp on July 31. The first practice is Aug. 1.