Regarding his decision to attend BYU he said in January 2012, "Growing up in Huntington Beach (Calif.) I've always been a big BYU fan. I grew up LDS and with my parents being LDS, that was the school we always cheered for and I've always wanted to go to BYU since I was a kid."
He was on the USA men's roster for the 2014 FIVB World Championships in Poland, August 30 – September 21, 2014.
He has a stress fracture in his lower shin, not an ankle injury as first thought. This was reported by Blair Lambert June 19, 2015 on his volleyball blog From The Pins after speaking with a family member earlier in the week.
