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Lopaka Ornellas is in his seventh season as SMU's video coordinator, having spent the previous six years as video coordinator at Hawai'i.

Ornellas was a walk-on on the Hawai'i football team from 1996 through 1999 and played for Fred vonAppen and June Jones. He lettered in four sports in high school - boxing, football, track and wrestling - and also participated in rodeo competitions, riding bulls and roping cattle. He also enjoys combat sports and was a San Diego Golden Gloves boxing champion in 1991 and 1992 and the Hawaiian Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champion in 2005.

His parents, Rita and John, reside in Mililani, O'ahu, and he has two older brothers, John and Billy, and one older sister, Karen.