Before Yale: Four-year varsity starter and a star player at four positions (SS, 3B, OF, C) at Corona del Mar High School ... Named the school's athlete of the year and the winner of the Sea King Pride Award in 2011-12 ... The Sea Kings captain as a senior ... Led his team to the CIF playoffs three times and was named All-Pacific Coast League Honorable Mention, All-PCL Second-Team and All-PCL First Team in his last three seasons ... The starting catcher for the Pacific Coast League's All-Star Team, the Elite Baseball Series MVP and a two-year member of the Daily Pilot Baseball Dream Team ... Also named the Daily Pilot's Dream Team Player of the Year in football ... A member of the National Honor Society, and was also a Boys State-California Delegate and a California Scholarship Federation selection for four years ... Also played summer baseball for the Southern California Renegades for four years.

At Yale: Resident of Davenport College. Economics major.