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2025 Awards
CSC Academic All-District Team
2025 Stats (Season High Plays In Parentheses)
Games: 9
Solo Tackles/Total Tackles: 19 Solo Tackles / 32 Total Tackles (5 three times)
Tackles For Loss: 0.5 for 0 Yards (0.5 vs George Fox 9/13)
Interceptions: 2 for 29 Yards (1 two times)
Pass Breakups: 1 (1 at Puget Sound 9/6)
- Recorded a career-year as a junior that saw him post career-highs in solo tackles, tackles and interceptions
- Posted multiple tackles in eight of his nine appearances and four or more tackles five times
- Notched five solo tackles and his first collegiate interception, which included a 29-yard return, on October 4 in a conference win over the University of Puget Sound
- Added four tackles (one solo) and an interception at George Fox University on October 18
- Closed out the season with three solo tackles and five total stops in each of the final two games of the season
2024-25 Awards
2025 Northwest Conference Scholar-Athlete
2024 Stats (Season High Plays In Parentheses)
Games: 10
Solo Tackles/Total Tackles: 10 Solo/23 Total (9 Tackles at Pacific 9/14)
- Appeared in all 10 games and served as one of the team’s top safeties during his third season
- Recorded multiple tackles in five contests
- Opened the year with five stops against Puget Sound in the season opener
- Recorded a season-high six solo tackles and nine total stops at Pacific on September 14
- Posted four tackles (two solo) at Puget Sound on November 9
2023 Stats (Season High Plays In Parentheses)
Games: 7
Solo Tackles/Total Tackles: 10 Solo/13 Total (4 two times)
Pass Breakups: 2 (1 two times)
- Carved out a role as a key member of the secondary during his sophomore season
- Played in seven games
- Recorded multiple tackles four times during his freshman campaign
- Posted four solo tackles in his collegiate debut – the season opener at Puget Sound on September 2
- Added four solo tackles, a tackle-for-loss (one yard) and a pass breakup against Willamette on September 9
- Notched three solo tackles against Puget Sound on November 4
2022 (Freshman Year): Did not appear in a game in his freshman campaign.
At Lewis & Clark: Minoring in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation.
Prior to Lewis & Clark: Attended St. Francis Salesian College Preparatory High School … Named the Pacific Coast Athletic League Defensive Player of the Year as a senior … Earned PCAL First Team All-League DB as a junior and senior and Second Team as a sophomore … Led his team to the PCAL Santa Lucia League Title as a senior.
Why Lewis & Clark?: I chose Lewis & Clark because of the great academic program that’ll help me achieve my future goals. And the brotherhood feeling from the football program.
