Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Swimming team, where he swims the butterfly...2014-15: SCIAC All-Academic team...Helped the 200 medley relay B team win the consolation heat with a 1:33.90 at SCIAC Championships...Swam a 52.24 in the 100 fly, earning a 14th place finish...2013-14: SCIAC All-Academic team selection...Qualified for the finals in the 100-yard butterfly at the SCIAC Championships...Finished seventh with a personal-best time of 51.97, moving him into the top ten in program history...Also broke 2:00 in the 200-yard butterfly at SCIACs to finish 11th with a 1:59.81...2012-13: SCIAC All-Academic team selection...Swam a 53.14 at the SCIAC Championships in the 100-yard butterfly, earning a 14th place finish...2011-12: Swam the butterfly leg on the Sagehens 200-yard medley relay team at the SCIAC Championships, which earned a 1:38.38...Clocked a 55.01 in the SCIAC Championships in the 100-yard butterfly...High School: Attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he competed on the swimming and water polo teams...Named swim team captain...Qualified for the states in the medley relay...Played on the No. 1 ranked water polo team in Illinois...National Merit Scholar finalist...Also competes on the TOPS club team...Personal: Attending Pomona College, where he majors in computer science with a minor in philosophy...Has a particular intetest in educational technology...Lists "Software Development", "Philosophy of Religion" and "History of Jazz" as the most interesting courses he has taken while at Pomona...Spent the summer (2014) as a software development intern at Motion Math, an educational technology startup in San Francisco where he plans to work full time after graduation...Is a columnist for Pomona's newspaper, The Student Life...Has two brothers and one sister...Brother, Andrew, swims at St. Olaf College...Favorite movies include Gladiator, Dark Knight, and The Shawshank Redemption...Lists Abraham Lincoln as the public figure he most admires...Chose Pomona for its "location, rigorous academics, collaborative atmosphere and swim program."