Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team, where he was a starting pitcher after playing in the outfield earlier in the year…2012: First-team All-SCIAC selection...Ended the year 8-3 with a 2.99 ERA as the team's No. 1 pitcher...Was 6-0 with an 0.83 ERA in his first seven SCIAC starts before a bad outing at Whittier (nine runs in 2.2 innings)...Allowed one hit and struck out seven in five innings of work in a win over eventual West Region champion Whitworth...Had a completed game five-hit shutout in a 3-0 win over Cal Lutheran...Had a five-hit shutout in a home win over Redlands...Allowed one earned run or fewer in seven straight starts and in nine of his 13 starts on the year...Was 7-1 with a 2.54 ERA in SCIAC games...2011: First-team SCIAC All-Academic team selection…Finished the year with a 7-2 record on the mound, ranking second on the team in wins…Started 11 games…Earned two wins over Chapman in February…Allowed no earned runs in six innings to get the win in a 2-1 victory over Johns Hopkins…Threw seven shutout innings in a win over Cal Lutheran…Struck out 47 in 72.1 innings pitched…Also had six RBI at the plate…2010: Finished 5-0 on the year as a reliever…Hit .339 with 22 RBI at the plate…Batted 4-for-5 in a 7-6 win over Cal  Lutheran, and earned the win in relief…Won both games of a doubleheader sweep over CMS.

High School: Attended South Eugene High School in Oregeon, where he played baseball and basketball for the Axemen…Was a four-year starter and two time Gold Glove winner in baseball…Was a three-time all-league selection and was named a team captain twice…Helped the Axemen to two state tournament appearances…Also a two-time all-league selection in basketball.

Personal: Attending Pitzer College, where he majors in sociology with a minor in government…Mother is a judge and father is a law professor…Father played football at Stanford…Has a younger brother and a younger sister…Has played the last two summers with the Oahu Paddlers in the Hawaii Collegiate League, which he has helped to two league championships…Finished last summer with a 1.44 ERA and an opponents’ batting average of .170…Hobbies include Oregon Duck football and the outdoors…Favorite athletes are LeBron James and Jeff Maehl…Lists Moneyball as his favorite book and Borat as his favorite movie…Lists “Classic Sociological Theory” as the most interesting course he has taken while at Pitzer…Jim Valvano is the public figure he most admires (“have enthusiasm, have fun and smile”)…Plans to work in marketing/design with the Oregon athletic department and become a graphic designer at Nike after graduation…Has volunteered in three schools (two middle schools and one high school) in tutoring and counseling students…Born March 28, 1990 in Miami...Chose Pitzer because of the “good education and the ability to play right away in the sunshine."