Eric Myers
Eric Myers
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    West Linn, OR
  • High School:
    Jesuit
  • Events:
    Jumps
  • Major:
    Philosophy; Public Affairs
  • College:
    Claremont McKenna

Bio

At CMS
2018-19 (Senior): All-SCIAC (long jump) ...
Set a PR in the long jump at the SCIAC Championships with a jump of 6.88 meters (22'7") finishing second to earn all-league honors ... Also had a sixth-place finish in the high jump at 1.77 meters (5'9.75") earning three more points towards the team total to help the Stags to the league championship ... Was second in the long jump and third in the high jump at the final SCIAC Multi-Dual at Occidental on April 13 ... Earned two second-place finishes in the high jump (1.85 meters) and long jump (6.16 meters) at the first SCIAC Multi-Dual at Redlands on March 2

2017-18 (Junior): Finished fifth at the 2018 SCIAC Championships in the long jump with a top distance of 6.81 meters (22'4.25") ... Also came in sixth at the 2018 SCIAC Championships in the high jump with a jump of 1.87 meters (6'1.5") and 11th in the javelin ... Was second in the long jump (6.61 meters) and third in the high jump (1.80 meters) at the third SCIAC Multi-Dual, which CMS hosted ... Had a PR in the javelin of 150'6" (45.87 meters) at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.

2016-17 (Sophomore): Finished sixth in the high jump at SCIAC Championships at 1.82 meters (5'11.5") ... Had three top five finishes in the high jump at the three SCIAC Multi-Duals, fourth in the first and second and fifth in the third. 

2015-16 (First-Year): All-SCIAC (4x400 relay) ... Came in sixth in the high jump at the SCIAC Championships at 1.87 meters (6'1.5"), setting a PR ... Helped the 4x400 relay team to a third-place finish at SCIACs with a 3:20.07, earning all-league honors ... Was third in both the high jump and the long jump at the final SCIAC Multi-Dual ... Set a PR in the 400 with a 52.88 at the second SCIAC Multi-Dual.

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna, where he majors in philosophy and public affairs with a sequence in ethics ... Plans to pursue a PhD in philosophy ... Spent the summer (2018) on an internship at Freshwater Trust, a water conservation firm in Portland, while also taking International Relations summer school courses at the London School of Economics ... Lists "Russian Politics", "International Political Economy of Money/Finance", "Bioethics", "Fundamentals of Logic" and "Ethical Theory" at CMS, as well as "Engaging Music" at Pomona as his favorite courses that he has taken in college so far ... Doing his senior thesis in philosophy comparing left-libertarian and libertarian socialist theories of self-ownership (individual autonomy) and equality (egalitarian market economies vs. democratically planned economies/workplace democracy, egalitarian vs joint/collective ownership of productive resources).

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