Ellis Tirado

Height:
6-5
Weight:
185
Class:
Redshirt
Hometown:
Cypress, CA
High School:
Los Alamitos HS

2016-17 -- Redshirt.

High School -- A 2016 graduate of Los Alamitos High School in Orange County ... four-year varsity letter winner under head coach John Haygood ... led Griffins to second-place Sunset League finish as a freshman and CIF-Southern Section team titles as a sophomore ... carded a 69 for medalist honors in 2014 CIF-Southern Section team finals ... Sunset League MVP in 2014 and 2016 ... 2016 Sunset League individual champion with a 75 and 69 for a 144 total and advanced to CIF-Southern Section individual finals ... qualified for 2014 CIF-SS Individual Regional and carded a 75 ... won Sunset League MVP in 2014 on points and advanced to the CIF/SCGA State Regional ... earned first-team All-Orange County honors as a sophomore and senior and was named to the Long Beach Press-Telegram Dream Team both years as well ... broke school record by shooting seven-under-par 65 at Recreation Park Golf Course adjacent to Blair Field ... member of Principal's Honor Roll ... chose to attend Cal Poly because "I loved the area when I visited; the balance of going to a great school and playing golf at a Division I program was very attractive."

Personal -- Son of Jose and Sandra Tirado ... father played football at Penn State and Baldwin Wallace ... father was the leading receiver on Baldwin Wallace's NCAA Division III National Championship Team in the 1978 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl and was inducted into the Lorain Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. ... one sister, Alina ... enjoys basketball and ping pong as hobbies ... born June 4, 1998, in Long Beach, Calif. ... majoring in business administration.