Ryan Routh

I was born in Bristol, PA on February 13, 1994. After living there for six months, my family moved to Baltimore, MD for the next four years. In November 1998 we moved to Bothell, WA, which is where I've lived for the past 16 years. Throughout the years I've played lots of sports (football, track, baseball, basketball) and been captain of a couple teams I've played for. I was a letter winner for both my high school football and track teams.

I didn't start truly succeeding in school until my freshman year of high school, I had done well before but my grades were nothing special. I graduated high school with a 3.1, it wasn't bad but I knew I could dedicate myself better. The worst year of school I've ever had was my freshman year of college when I began attending the University of Arizona. I was moving away from home for the first time to a place where I didn't have any friends, but I needed to leave because there were certain aspects of home I couldn't handle anymore. I spent my whole freshman year attempting to make friends and make improvements to my personality rather than focusing on what my Dad was paying $40,000 annually for, which was school. My sophomore year, last year, I re-dedicated myself to my studies and began to succeed. I posted a 3.24 GPA my sophomore year which helped me reach the qualifying GPA for the Eller College of Management. In Fall 2014, I am proud to say that I was accepted into Eller.