Daniel Figoni: Tale of the Tape

Home Town: San Francisco, CA, USA High School: Saint Ignatius College Preparatory
Height: 6'1'' Wingspan: 78''
Would like to have a drink with: Mike Figoni (father) @ age 27 Would like to push down stairs: Theodore Roosevelt, for making me look bad.
Daniel's credo: ''There has never yet been a man in our history who has led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.'' - Theodore Roosevelt

Education

Street Cred

  • Won six consecutive trophies at the Figoni Invitational Beirut tournament
  • Recorded a perfect game of 8 person liars dice on December 29th, 2004
  • Only person not to receive a ribbon during my St. Brendan Science Fair
  • Beat every level and earned every cheat in GoldenEye 007
  • Beat the entire Tony Hawk 3 video game
  • Once broke a car windshield with a water filled balloon
  • Sported pennies in penny loafers since ‘02
  • Recognized as having a San Franciscan accent by a stranger who grew up in The City.
  • Recognized by a complete stranger as a water polo player from San Francisco while playing Wiffle Ball at Bondi Beach, Sydney Donated over a gallon of blood to Stanford Medical Center
  • Won over 60% of all team domino games held at Column 3G2, Bldg 157, Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale

Firsts

  • D on a Report Card: 7th grade spelling
  • Car Accident: 1996, aged 15, 19th and Sloat, San Francisco, CA
  • Virile Beard: TBD
  • Perfect Beirut Game: Winter 2005
  • Petty Crime: Stole stickers from neighborhood toy shop in 1986
  • Revelation of Greatness: playing touch football during St. Brendan’s after school day care
  • Time setting mouth on fire: June 2002
  • Culinary Masterpiece: Combining an Oreo with a Junior Mint (basically, you can have Thin Mints year round)
  • MoY Bronze Significant Achievement: 2008
  • MoY Silver Significant Achievement: TBD
  • MoY Gold Significant Achievement: TBD
  • MoY Crowning: 2008

Athletic

Water Polo

  • Second leading scorer in Division I NCAA Water Polo in 2003
  • Credited with ''helping save water polo'' at Santa Clara University in 2003
  • Captain and leading scorer of a nationally ranked NCAA Division I Water Polo team
  • Set modern era school record of 75 goals in one season at Santa Clara University
  • Once upon a time held single game goals record at St. Ignatius College Preparatory
  • Holds single game goal record at Santa Clara University
  • Elected to Australia’s ''Green and Gold'' team in 2002; All-Stars of the national collegiate tournament
  • Unofficially, the palest water polo player in the history of California
  • While playing Wiffle Ball on Bondi Beach in Australia was recognized by a complete stranger as a water polo player from San Francisco, proving that street cred goes round the world.

Dodgeball

  • Captain of BAAA! Subcontracts!!!! -- Four-Time Consecutive Dodgeball Champions at Lockheed Martin
  • Single-handedly eliminated five competitors after being down five to one
  • Immediately came back into play after dislocating a finger

Miscellaneous

  • Placed in the top 5 in the CYO cross country race in 1993
  • One of three members of the 2004 Santa Clara Wiffle Ball Championship team ''2 to Infinity''
  • Won the 'water wings' award for being the worst swimmer on JV St. Ignatius team
  • Egregiously booed by 10,000 hockey fans before I lost to a 4-year-old girl at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor ice hockey intermission shoot off

Intellectual

Santa Clara University

  • The lowest grade received at SCU was a ''C+'' in ''Theology of Marriage.'' I'm going to make a fine husband.
  • Three time Academic All-American, including the term when my aforementioned ''C+'' was my only grade
  • Have been told by bosses and peers that I'm ''Much smarter than I look.''

Experience

Lockheed Martin

  • Constantly rebuffs superiors who claim ''You've really screwed on this. Oh boy. You screwed us.''
  • Negotiated contracts worth millions of dollars with captains of industry
  • Only candidate to meet initial hiring requirements: finance degree, Santa Clara, graduated in Winter 2003, preferably a student-athlete