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What is your occupation?
Inventory Control Specialist at Costco Wholesale

Where do you live?
North Bend, WA. About 45 minutes Southeast of Seattle

Married? Kids?
Girlfriend, she has a dog if you count that? I can barely take care of myself

What is your fondest memory of your time playing college football?
Having played during COVID times, it was extremely weird time obviously so getting back to sense of normalcy and getting able to be back on the field with the guys I came in with a freshman was awesome. Ended up going 11-1, losing in the quarterfinals to the eventual national champ in the closest game they had all year (still not over it).

If you could give ONE bit of advice to the current Rubio Long Snappers, what would it be? Snapping PARENTS, what would it be?

• Snappers
  • DO THE SLOW-MO DILLS! They can be annoying and monotonous at times, but they are invaluable. They are easy to do inside or outside and take all of 15-20 minutes to do and can make all the difference in the world. I admittedly was kind of lazy with them my freshman year and I could tell since I was struggling by the end of the season (ended up being left off the playoff roster due to the inconsistency of my snaps the last three weeks of the season). Refocused and went back to the basics going into my sophomore year. Did slow-mo’s daily and “only” snapped a couple times a week. Never missed a game the remainder of my time, and ended up with the best compliment a HC could give. “The past 5 years, we never really had to even think about punts/FGS”.
• Parents
  • Be supportive and don’t make it bigger than it needs to be. More often than not, your son/daughter (shout out Kalyn) knows what to do and how to do it. 99.99% of the time, there will be more snaps and how they snap the next ball is most important. Confidence is massive with snapping and if you can help build your child’s confidence it can be massive for the snaps.

When was the last time you snapped a ball and for what reason?
November of this past year. Helping coach special teams at a local High School and the first day I snapped with the snappers to in a sense prove that I knew what I was talking about. I ended up snapping a few balls each time I was there helping out because it seemed to make the kids I was working with snap better.

If you could go back and play football in college again, would you go to the same school or a different one? Why?
I’m not entirely sure honestly. I absolutely love and still love Linfield, both of my parents went there, and my brother ended up getting his degree from there as well. The relationships I have from there that I will have the rest of my life couldn’t have come from anywhere else and I don’t think I would trade it for anything. On the other hand, I started snapping very late and didn’t attend my first Rubio camp until I was already a junior in high school and it would’ve been very cool to have been able to compete at the highest level possible.

Any regrets during college? Anything you wish you had done or hadn’t done?
Sometimes I would get so caught up in football, that I would forget to take a sec and “take it all in”. My first 4 years were fantastic and you hear it all the time, but it really does feel like the blink of an eye. COVID obviously didn’t help and it threw everything off. We went 394 days (it was on the walls of our weight room) between losing in 3OT in the playoffs and our next game. So in a way, it kinda allowed me to take inventory and be able to go into my 5^th year with the perspective of making sure I take it all in.

What tremendous thing have you been a part of or experienced since you graduated?

• Personally
  • Being able to relatively seamlessly transition into “the real world” with a job, bills, and supporting pretty much fully supporting myself within a few months of graduating
• Professionally
  • Was able to manage doing interviews and job applications while in my 5^th I wasn’t technically graduated since I was “accidentally” one credit short of graduating after my senior year, but it was COVID year so we didn’t play any games at all. So I had to come back to take one class in order to play my final season. I had to manage practice, meetings, and lifts, while I was doing interviews throughout the week whether it was in person or zoom interviews.

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