Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Entering his first season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Football program, where he plays tight end…High School: Attended The American School in Japan, where he was a member of the football and track and field teams…Earned All-Far East and Kanto Plains All-Star honors as a senior in 2014…Named Most Valuable Offensive Lineman, Defensive End and Center for All-Star Team USA at the Tomodachi Bowl…Helped the Mustangs to Kanto Plains Championships as a junior and senior…A Far East qualifier in the shot put in 2014…Personal: Attends Pitzer College, where he majors in psychology and minors in English and world literature…Has an older brother and a younger sister…Father, Larik, was a swimmer for the University of Washington and competed in the Olympic trials…Great-grandfather Larry O’Neil graduated from Pomona and competed on the Sagehens Track and Field team…Hobbies include playing the guitar and writing…Has traveled to Thailand the last two Novembers to build clean water storage systems and refurbish schools in the rural hill tribe communities…Also prepares and distributes food to the homeless in Tokyo…Chose Pitzer because “Pitzer’s emphasis on core and community values crystallized my belief that Pitzer was where I wanted to spend the next four years of my life. Many schools talk about values, but Pitzer lives them.”