Joel Awich

Height:
6-7
Weight:
209
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
St. Paul, MN
High School:
Tartan HS

2014-15 (Junior)
Started career high 28 of 29 games and finished second in lineup with 29.3 minutes played per game and fourth with 8.7 points per game … ranked fifth among Big West Conference players with 1.3 blocks per game and 38 blocks (the fifth highest total in Cal Poly single season history) … also ranked eighth among Big West players with 6.1 rebounds per game … scored career high 19 points on career high four three pointers versus Long Beach State (Feb. 14) … added 17 points versus Cal State Fullerton (Jan. 22) and 15 at CSUN?(Jan. 17) and versus CSUN?(Feb. 12) … scored in double digits in 13 of 29 games ... produced first career double-double of 11 points and career high 11 rebounds versus UC?Riverside?(Jan. 24) … posted second double-double of 10 points and 10 boards versus Hawai’i (Feb. 5) … added nine rebounds on four occasions: at San Francisco (Dec. 15), versus Northeastern (Dec. 17), at IPFW?(Dec. 30) and at Hawai’i (Jan. 7) … matched career high of four blocks versus Cal State Fullerton (Jan. 22) and CSUN?(Feb. 12) … blocked multiple shots during a game 12 times.

2013-14 (Sophomore)
Appeared in 33 of 34 games with 17 starts and averaged 17.0 minutes per appearance … finished sixth among Big West Conference players with 31 blocks (the eighth highest total in program history) … scored season high 11 points at Stanford (Dec. 29) and in Big West Tournament quarterfinal matchup versus UC Santa Barbara (March 13) … added eight points at Cal State Fullerton (Jan. 23) and versus UC Davis (Jan. 30) … grabbed season high seven rebounds versus UC Irvine (Feb. 1) and at Cal State Northridge (Feb. 13) … blocked career best four shots versus Cal State Northridge (Jan. 16) ... blocked multiple shots during a game eight times.

2012-13 (Freshman)
Appeared in 24 of 32 games, started five times and averaged 10.7 minutes per contest (Cal Poly finished 4-1 during his five starts) … scored season high nine points and matched season high with three blocks at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 20) … twice grabbed a season high six rebounds, most recently versus UC Santa Barbara (Feb. 16) … led Cal Poly with 13 blocks.

2011-12 (Redshirt)
Redshirted first season on campus.

Tartan HS (Oakdale, MN)
Averaged 8.7 points per game during 2010-11 senior season in helping the Titans to a 25-4 overall mark and a runner-up showing in the Classic Suburban Conference with a 9-1 record … registered 13 double-digit scoring outings as a senior and led program in rebounding to earn All-Classic Suburban Conference praise … also helped Tartan HS to the 2010-11 Minnesota Class 4A section championship game … three-time recipient of the Titan program’s Most Improved Player honor … former member of the Minnesota Pump N Run AAU program … also lettered in football (2008) and track and field (2010-11).??

Personal
Son of Lynette and Habakkuk Awich … has one sister, Audrey … majoring in sociology … lists biggest thrills at Cal Poly as “beating No. 11 UCLA at Pauley Pavilion last year and playing in the Big West Tournament at the Honda Center” … speaks French … earned academic achievement honors for three years at Tartan HS … member of Relay for Life (American Cancer Society fundraising project) at Tartan HS … lived in Switzerland prior to moving to United States … Joel Christopher Abiola Awich was born on April 22, 1993 in Nairobi, Kenya.