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