High School: 2008 Maryland State Champion ... two-time Maryland State finalist ... placed fourth at the 2007 NHSCA National Open Championships ... named a Brute Scholastic Dual Championships All-American ... helped his team to the 2008 Maryland State Championship and consecutive Maryland State Dual Championships in 2006 and 2007 ... named team captain as a junior and senior ... earned four varsity letters in wrestling ... also a member of the National Honor Society and was the senior class historian.