Welcome home to Jim Krohn, quarterback of Amphitheater High School's 1975 state championship football team, and Arizona’s starting quarterback in 1978 and 1979, the last Tucsonan to be the UA’s regular QB. He and his wife, Lori Lee, also an Amphi grad, moved back to Tucson this month.
After playing in the Canadian Football League, Krohn has lived in the Phoenix area the last 40 years, a major success in the property management business, CEO and co-founder of Alliance Residential, a $15 billion company. His son, Jeff, was ASU’s starting quarterback in 2000-01 and his daughter, Jaime, was a swimming standout at Arizona in 2001-02.
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In some ways, Krohn never left Arizona. He still has season tickets on the 50-yard line under the press box at Arizona Stadium. He arranged for Amphi to hold the 40th anniversary of its 1975 football championship in the Sands Club at Arizona Stadium. He also became one of the first to help fund Arizona’s NIL program for football players.
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It would be fitting one day soon for Arizona to make Krohn the honorary captain on game day at Arizona Stadium.