Before Yale: Four-year starter on the varsity baseball team at Buchholz High School... A 2009 Perfect Game Underclass All-American....All-Area First Team selection in his final three seasons... Team's Most Valuable Pitcher in 2009 and 2011... A 2011 FACA Florida All Star Game Selection... First-Team All-State selection in 2011 and an All-State Honorable Mention in 2009, as well as a Perfect Game All-Florida Region First Team selection in 2011 ... Graduated in the top 10 percent of his class with a 4.40 GPA, and is a member of National Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society, and Mu Alpha Theta, a math honor society... Played for the South Florida Bandits Summer Baseball Organization.