Biography
2023: Received a M.S. in additive manufacturing in December 2023 … College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for Division II football, the nation's top student-athlete ... Cliff Harris Award finalist as D-II’s top defensive player, the first finalist in program history … Consensus All-American with Associated Press First-Team, D2CCA First-Team, D2football.com First Team, Don Hansen First Team, and AFCA Second-Team honors … First-Team Academic All-America ... NFFCC Colorado Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... NFFCC First-Team All-Academic ... RMAC Defensive Player of the Year … First-Team All-RMAC … D2CCA First-Team All-Super Region 4 … College Sports Communicators Academic All-District … RMAC Defensive Academic Player of the Year … National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society member ... NFFCC First-Team All-Colorado … First-Team Academic All-RMAC … Team's Defensive Player of the Year ... Started all 15 games at outside linebacker … Compiled 64 total tackles and led Mines with 13.5 tackles for loss, 10.0 sacks, and 10 hurries … Tied for the team lead in total turnovers generated with four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries … Recovered a fumble for a touchdown against Augustana in the NCAA Second Round … Had strips against Colorado Mesa, Fort Lewis, Augustana, and Central Washington … Recoveries came against Fort Lewis and Augustana … Had 25 tackles, 4.5 TFL and 3.0 sacks in four postseason games … Recorded a TFL in 12 of 15 games and a sack in 11 of 15 … Top tackling game was against Augustana with eight stops … Ended his Mines career as one of the most productive defensive players in program history, ranking second all-time in sacks with 42.5 to go with 55.5 tackles for loss, 239 tackles, and 15 total turnovers generated in 57 career games.
2022: Second-Team All-RMAC ... NFFCC Second-Team All-Colorado … First-Team Academic All-RMAC … College Football America Yearbook Preseason All-America … Appeared in 15 games as the starter at outside linebacker … Helped Mines lead the nation in sacks with a team-best 13.5, tying the program record … Had a Mines-best 17.0 tackles for loss, accounting for a whopping 110 lost yards (101 on sacks alone) … Produced 64 total tackles … Generated three forced fumbles and had four hurries and two pass break-ups … Produced a sack in nine different games, including four of five postseason contests … Had a monster NCAA tournament with 30 total tackles, 9.0 TFL, 7.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles in five games … Top production games were a seven-tackle, two-sack day at South Dakota Mines, nine tackles and two sacks with a fumble force vs. Minnesota State, and three sacks with a forced fumble returned for a touchdown in the national semifinal vs. Shepherd ... Set the Mines single-game postseason record for sacks in that Shepherd contest.
2021: Received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in May 2022 ... Cliff Harris Award nominee …RMAC Defensive Academic Player of the Year … Team's Defensive Player of the Year ... D2CCA Second-Team All-Region … Second-Team All-RMAC … Second-Team All-NFFCC … CoSIDA Academic All-District … NFFCC First-Team Academic All-Colorado ... D2football.com National Defensive Player of the Week and RMAC Defensive Player of the Week (Week 10) … First-Team Academic All-RMAC … Appeared in all 14 games with 11 starts at outside linebacker … Led Mines with 75 total tackles … Led the RMAC with 10.5 sacks and was fifth with 14.5 tackles for loss, both team highs … Had a team-high seven hurries … Forced a league-leading four fumbles and recovered another … Produced 5+ tackles in seven games including 9 vs. New Mexico Highlands, Black Hills State, and CSU Pueblo, and 8 at West Texas A&M and at Colorado Mesa … Top all-around game was at CSU Pueblo to earn player of the week accolades with nine tackles, 3.0 sacks, 3.5 TFL, and two forced fumbles … Also forced fumbles against Western Oregon and Valdosta State, and picked one up at Mesa … Had sacks in seven different games.
2019: Honorable Mention All-RMAC … NFFCC First-Team Academic All-Colorado … RMAC Academic Honor Roll member … D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award recipient ... One of the RMAC’s top edge rushers with a team-leading 8.5 sacks … Ranked eighth in the RMAC in sacks ... Had 36 total tackles with 10.5 tackles for loss … Added a forced fumble and one batted pass … Had sacks in 10 of 13 games played … Top tackle output was a seven-stop, 1.5 TFL game against Dixie State that included a fumble force.
2018: Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL: Standout defensive end/LEO at Capistrano Valley (Calif.) ... Led CVHS to the CIF final, two Sea View League championships, and two CIF semifinal appearances ... Named Defensive Player of the Year in 2017 ... Also Defensive Lineman of the Year in 2016 ... Four-year Scholar-Athlete ... Academic Achievement Award recipient ... Also played basketball.
