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HIGH SCHOOL: Competed just one season in track & field at Glendora (Calif.) High for Head Coach Bob Ramsey but it was quite a season ... As a 2010 senior was named the team's most valuable thrower after winning the Sierra League discus with a career-best heave of 157' 10", more than 12 feet ahead of the second-place finisher and the fourth-best throw in Glendora High history ... Finished fourth in the shot at the league finals ... Posted a personal-best 46' 5" in the shot.

PERSONAL: Born Dec. 15, 1991, in Glendora, Calif. ... Parents are Dennis (real estate broker) and Rhonda (psychologist) Beckwith, both Azusa Pacific alumni ... Has an older sister (Brooke) and an older brother (Brandon, who played 2 years on Azusa Pacific's football team) ... His uncle (Ryan Rienstra) and aunt (Rolynn Rienstra) both played basketball at Azusa Pacific in the 1990s ... Majoring in applied exercise and hopes to go into physical therapy ... Plays the drums.