Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season as a defensive back on the Pomona-Pitzer Football team, while seeing spot duty as wide receiver late in his senior year...2013: Second-team All-SCIAC selection...Hampshire Honor Society selection from National Football Foundation...SCIAC All-Academic team selection...Started all nine games...Totaled 37 tackles and 14 pass break-ups...Tallied four interceptions, including two against La Verne, the second of which set up a pivotal fourth quarter touchdown in a 31-23 win...Also had an interception in a win over Whittier and one in a narrow loss to Occidental...Broke up three passes on opening day against MIT, while tallying a season-high seven tackles...2012: SCIAC All-Academic Team selection...Started all nine games at cornerback for the Sagehens...Finished the year with 48 tackles (31 solo)...Also had six pass break-ups and two interceptions, to lead the team in both categories...Had a late interception to preserve a shutout in a 37-0 win over CMS, the first shutout for the program since 2000...Also intercepted a pass at La Verne...Had season-high 12 tackles at nationally ranked Cal Lutheran...Also had 10 tackles at Occidental...2011: SCIAC All-Academic team selection...Started all nine games for the Sagehens in the defensive backfield, primarily at cornerback...Finished with 36 tackles...Had an opening day sack against Whitworth...Intercepted a pass against Chapman...Had season-high six tackles against nationally ranked Cal Lutheran, which he later matched against La Verne...2010: Earned the Sagehen Rookie of the Year as a freshman...Had 20 tackles and two interceptions on the year...Also broke up five passes...High School: Attended Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, where he played football and ran on the track team...Had five interceptions during his senior season...Personal: Attending Pomona College, where he majors in biology, specializing in ecology/conservation biology...Lists "Advanced Animal Ecology" and "The World In A Nutshell" (a class about short stories) as the most interesting courses he has taken while at Pomona...Father is a professor in the UC San Diego Rady School of Business, while his mother is development director at the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy...Has one younger brother...Lists Jerry Rice as the public figure he most admires...Hopes to go to grad school after graduation...Would recommend Pomona because it is "an opportunity to pursue a top tier education and compete in athletics at a collegiate level. The Consortium has many of the benefits of a large university but a small school atmosphere"...An Academic All-America candidate...Member of the Kappa Delta fraternity...Born April 13, 1992