High School:
Accumulated nine letters at Walpole High School ... Three-year letterwinner and two-year starter in football ... Played two ways at center and defensive tackle ... Two-year starter in wrestling ... Also a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter in tennis ... Captain of football and tennis teams as a senior ... Football team went 13-0 en route to a Division II state championship in 2008 ... Two-time Daily Transcript All-Star in football ... Boston herald and Boston Globe All-Scholastic ... Two-time Bay State League All-Star ... League's defensive player of the year as a senior ... EMass All-Star ... Super 26 selection ... Shriner's Game invitee ... Eastern mass chapter pf National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete ... Named Metro Sectional wrestling champion as a senior ...  AP Scholar ... National Honor Society vice president ... Four-time class president ... school Governance Council ... Volunteered at St. Paul's Soup Kitchen for five years ... National Letter of Commendation ... Enjoys snowboarding and plays the saxophone.