BerzinsUPD

Career Honors

  • Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Greg Piers Award - Offense (2021)

As a Senior (2023)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in all 12 games for the Cardinal, making two home starts
  • Made consecutive starts against Arizona and No. 9 Oregon in the final two games of September
  • Finished the season as the highest graded run blocking guard on the roster, per Pro Football Focus

As a Junior (2022)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Saw action in 11 games, making one start

As a Sophomore (2021)

  • 2021 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Greg Piers Award - Offense
  • Did not see action

As a Freshman (2020)

  • Did not see action

Prior to Stanford

  • Played at Cathedral Catholic High School for head coach Sean Doyle
  • Ranked No. 72 in California by PrepStar, No. 128 in the state by 247Sports and No. 163 by ESPN
  • 2019 First Team All-CIF San Diego
  • 2019 all-Western League
  • 2019 Western League Champions
  • 2018 Cal-High All-State Junior Team second team
  • 2018 all-Western League first team
  • 2018 all-CIF San Diego second team
  • 2018 CCHS Offensive Lineman of the Year
  • 2018 CIF 1AA State Runner-Up
  • 2018 Southern California and Western League Champions
  • 2017 all-Western League second team
  • 2016 CCHS Freshman Defensive Player of the Year
  • 2016 Western League Champions
  • Earned 10 varsity letters (four in football, three in rugby, two in track & field and one in baseball)
  • 2019 CIF Qualifier in shot put and discus
  • 2019 CIF San Diego Division II Champions and Western League Champions in track & field
  • Member of the National Honor Society and nine-time CIF All-Academic Team honoree
  • Recipient of the Msgr. John A. Dickie Award for Freshman Academic Achievement
  • Earned Father John Paul Cadden Award for Sophomore Academic Achievement
  • Two-time recipient of the Robert E. Bull Trometter Memorial Scholarship
  • San Diego Union Tribune Scholar-Athlete and earned Honor Roll recognition every semester

Personal

  • Son of Alex and Erin Berzins
  • Father went to Stanford while mother went to Cal
  • Aunt, Aimee (Berzins) Schmitt ‘89, was an NCAA Champion swimmer for Stanford
  • Grandfather, Michael Lawton, was a member of the crew team at M.I.T.
  • One side of family is of Latvian heritage while the other side can be traced to the Revolutionary War and Plymouth Rock
  • High school teammate of former Stanford teammate Jake Lynch