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Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

2015 Men's Track and Field

Adam Mitchell

Adam Mitchell

  • Height:
    5-11
  • Class:
    Freshman
  • Hometown:
    Tualatin, Ore.
  • Highschool:
    Tualatin

Summary

Biography

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his first season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Men's Track and Field team, where he competes in the middle distance events (primarily 1500)...High School: Attended Tualatin High School in Oregon, where he was a member of the cross country and track and field teams...Helped the Timberwolves to an appearance in the state championships...Had a personal best of 4:29 in the 1500 and 18:06 in the 5000...Earned numerous academic honors, including class valedictorian...IB Diploma recipient...Wall of Fame Honoree: Top IB Physics Student...Outstanding IB Diploma Student...Outstanding Wind Ensemble Member (Trumpet)...President's Education Award...Seven published works in city library...Spanish II Grammar, Uses of the 26 Spanish Verb Tenses...AP Calculus...AB Formulas and Concepts...IB Math Studies Thesis...IB Physics HL Thesis...IB Extended Essay on Atomic Bombings, Epistemology on the Justification of Torture...Personal: Attends Pomona College, where he majors in physics...Has a younger sister...Hobbies include playing trumpet, tutoring/teaching, refereeing soccer and hiking...Favorite athletes are Mo Farah and Galen Rupp...Favorite books include On War (Clausewitz), Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), Consider the Lobster (Wallace), Life of Pi (Martel), 1984 (Orwell), Tao of Pooh (Hoff), White Noise (DeLillo), and The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)...Lists Harry S. Truman, Frankin Roosevelt and Stephen Hawking as the public figures he most admires. 

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