Chase Lyman is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 wide receiver

Wide receiver

A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...

. Lyman was raised in Los Altos Hills, CA and is the son of former NFL player Brad Lyman. He attended Saint Francis High School

Saint Francis High School (Mountain View)

Saint Francis High School, founded in 1954 by the Brothers of Holy Cross, is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory secondary school located in Mountain View, CA. The Brothers of Holy Cross serve both on the faculty and on the Board of Directors...

 in Mountain View, California

Mountain View, California

-Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south...

 where he played football, basketball and ran track. The San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News

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 named Lyman their Male Athlete of the Year in 2000. The San Jose Sports Hall of Fame awarded Chase their Outstanding Male High School Athlete of the Year in 2000. Despite his success in high school athletics, he received only one scholarship offer, to the University of California

University of California, Berkeley

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. An extremely hard worker, Lyman became a key component of the Cal offense. In his junior year he was a main target for Cal quarterback Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Charles Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League . Rodgers was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers...

. Initially wearing #81, he later switched to #15. He graduated with a degree in American Studies in 2004 and was drafted in the 4th round by the New Orleans Saints in 2005. Lyman's football career was cut short by injury. He retired after tearing his ACL

Anterior cruciate ligament

The anterior cruciate ligament is a cruciate ligament which is one of the four major ligaments of the human knee. In the quadruped stifle , based on its anatomical position, it is referred to as the cranial cruciate ligament.The ACL originates from deep within the notch of the distal femur...

 for a second time. Lyman is working in commercial real estate with Cornish & Carey Commercial in Palo Alto, California.