Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Men's Soccer team, where he played both defender and forward...2013: Missed the season with an injury, but served as a team captain...2012: SCIAC All-Academic team...Began the year as a starting defender, but moved up to play forward late in the season...Appeared in 14 games, including five starts...Had two pivotal goals for the Sagehens...Scored his first goal on a diving header with just over two minutes left in the second overtime of a 2-1 win over Whittier (after assisting on the game's first goal)...Added the game's only goal in a 1-0 road win over Redlands in a battle of the top two teams in the SCIAC standings...Took five shots on the season...2011: Appeared in nine games, including five starts, while missing most of the season with an injury...High School: Attended Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colorado, where he helped the Bruins to an 11-0-1 record and conference championship in 2009, as well as a quarterfinal finish in the state tournament...An All-Academic First Team selection...Earned the Principal's Top Ten award, with a 4.7 weighted GPA, graduating third in a class of 900...Also played for the Real Colorado National club team...Personal: Attending Pomona College, where he majors in environmental analysis and economics with a minor in politics...Both parents attended Pomona - his mother is now a high school English teacher and his father works as a CFO...Has three sisters, one of whom played on the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Lacrosse team...Lists music, movies and basketball as his hobbies...Favorite athletes are Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez...Malcolm Gladwell books and Timeline by Michael Crichton are his favorite books....Favorite movies include Ocean's 11-13, Lucky Number Slevin, Fracture, The Dark Knight, 3:10 To Yuma, and How To Train Your Dragon...Armatya Sen is the public figure he most admires...Lists "Micro-theory" as the most interesting course he has taken while at Pomona...Chose Pomona because "three members of my family went to Pomona before me, my parents both graduated in '80 and my sister in '09. That opened up the window for me to look into the school. After visiting there was no question what my top choice for college was."