Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Finished his senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Football team, where he played on the defensive line...2014: SCIAC All-Academic team...Started all nine games, primarily at defensive end...Finished the year with 35 tackles and two sacks...Had a sack aganst Whittier, and added another against Redlands...Returned a blocked punt for a touchdown in a 24-0 home win over Whittier...Had a season-high of six tackles against Cal Lutheran...Had five tackles and broke up two passes on his Senior Day against CMS...2013: SCIAC All-Academic team selection...Saw action at linebacker, defensive end and nose tackle...Finished the year with 15 tackles, with a high of four against Chapman...2012: SCIAC All-Academic Team selection...Played in all nine games for the Sagehens...Finished the year with 27 tackles...Had a season-high six tackles at La Verne...Had four tackles for losses...2011: Played in seven games for the Sagehens and tallied 19 tackles (10 solo)...Had seven solo tackles at Whittier...Finished the regular season with five tackles against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps...Opened his career with three tackles at Whitworth...High School: Attended Tempe (Ariz.) Prep...Played football, basketball and baseball for the Knights...Was a first-team 2A Central All-Region linebacker and the Defensive Player of the Year as a senior, when he earned second-team All-State honors...Was a team captain as a junior and senior, and led the team in tackles as a senior...Earned a 3.99 GPA and served as class valedictorian...Personal: Attending Pomona College, where he majors in mathematical economics and minors in politics...Has a younger brother and a younger sister...Lists Steve Nash, Larry Fitzgerald, J.J. Watt and Paul Goldschmidt as his favorite athletes...Walden, Moby Dick and My Antonia are his favorite books...Lists "The Idea Of America" with John Seery as the most interesting course he has taken at Pomona...Academic All-America candidate...Born April 12, 1993.