Before Tufts: Was on the basketball and crew teams at Old Saybrook High School...competed at the Stotesbury Cup...was a founding member of the crew team at his high school...was the President of the National Honor Society...was an Eagle Scout...winner of the Xerox Award for Innovation and Information Technology...received the Rensselear Polytechnical Institute Award...member of the National Youth Leadership Training staff.

Personal: Son of Karel and Ashley...has one sibling, Maddie (21)....Karel played water polo at UC Berkeley and Ashley played field hockey and lacrosse at Connecticut College.