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Career Accolades

  • Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2022)

As a Junior (2022)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Saw action in three games, making one start

As a Sophomore (2021)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in all 12 games

As a Freshman (2020)

  • Did not see action, retains ability to redshirt

Prior to Stanford

  • Played at St. John Bosco High School for head coach Jason Negro
  • Four-star recruit by both Rivals and PrepStar, where he’s ranked No. 324 nationally
  • Consensus top 40 player from California – ranked No. 32 by Rivals, No. 37 by PrepStar and No. 39 by 247Sports
  • Ranked as a top 10 center by Rivals (No. 5), PrepStar (No. 5) and 247Sports (No. 8)
  • Played in the 2020 Polynesian Bowl
  • Two-time MaxPreps All-American (2018-19)
  • All-state first team (2019)
  • Team captain (2019)
  • All-CIFSS first team (2018)
  • All-area (2018)
  • Led team to 2019 CIF Open Division State Championship and No. 1 national ranking
  • Helped team to 2018 Trinity League Championship
  • Member of 2016 D1 State Champions and CIFSS Champions
  • Four-time recipient of the Scholar-Athlete Award and also earned a spot on the Principal’s Honor Roll all four years
  • Was named Student of the Year for AP U.S. History as a junior and also Freshman Entrepreneur of the Year

Personal

  • Son of Weslie and Robyn Metcalf
  • Father played football at UNLV
  • Has one brother, Connor
  • Learned to play the Scottish Highland Bagpipes after seeing them played at grandfather’s funeral
  • High school teammate of current Stanford teammate Colby Bowman and attended same high school as Kyle McCombs