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Philip Piper

School
Yale
Position
Defense
Major
EE/CS and mechanical engineering

Classroom

Philip Piper has a 3.87 grade-point average as an EE/CS and mechanical engineering major at Yale. He earned Academic All-Ivy recognition following his junior season. In the summer of 2014, he worked for Microsoft.

Character

Piper was elected as the captain of the 2015 Yale men’s soccer team. Per tradition, Yale has only one captain selected for each of its 35 varsity sports, and the captain is always picked by a team vote.

Community

Piper serves as the lead electrical engineer of Bulldogs Racing, a student-based racing team that designs and fabricates an open-wheeled, formula-style race car every year. Last May he competed at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He also has spent time serving as a youth soccer referee.

Competition

Piper has appeared in 49 games and started 43 during his Yale career. As a junior, he was the only player on the team to start all 17 games. In seven league games, he played 647 of a possible 650 minutes. He shared the team’s Walter J. McNerney Award, presented to the most valuable player as selected by the coaching staff. In his sophomore season, Piper earned honorable mention All-Ivy recognition after starting 15 of the 16 games he played in and anchoring Yale’s defense. As a rookie in 2012 he appeared in all but one game.