Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Swimming and Diving team, where he swam in the breaststroke...Broke the school record in the 100-yard breaststroke in his final swim at SCIAC Championships (56.85)...Also ranks third all-time in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:08.58)...2013-14: All-SCIAC in the 100-yard breaststroke...SCIAC All-Academic team...CSCAA Scholar All-America team honorable mention...Set a school record in the 100-yard breaststroke in the SCIAC Championships to finish second (56.85), trimming four seconds off his personal best...Finished second at SCIACs behind national champion Steven Van Deventer of Occidental...Also qualified for the finals in the 200-yard breaststroke and finished seventh with a personal best of 2:08.58, moving him into third place all time...2011-12: Competed in the 100-yard breaststroke at the SCIAC Championships, earning a 1:01.46 for 11th place at the event...Also swam the breaststroke leg for the Sagehens 200-yard medley relay team at the SCIACs as well...High School: Attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle, where competed on the school's swimming team...Class salutatorian...Earned the KINGCO Conference Scholar-Athlete Award...Personal: Attending Pomona College, where he majors in environmental analysis with a minor in philosophy...Hobbies include jazz, baseball, reading and rock climbing...Favorite athletes are Ichiro, Edgar Martinez and Dan Wilson...Lists The Grapes Of Wrath, The Road and Slaughterhouse Five as his favorite books, and The Dark Knight, Gladiator and No Country For Old Men as his favorite movies..."Problems of Philosophy" with Professor Kung is the most interesting course he has taken while at Pomona...Lists Theodore Roosevelt as the public figure he most admires...Spent the summer of 2013 on a wildlife, eco-tourism and adventure photography internship in South Africa.