Evan Pittman
As the son of two military parents, Brown University freshman Evan Pittman has lived in Washington, DC, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, Arizona, and now Rhode Island, and has performed with his violin for more than 90,000 people across the country. In high school, Evan was an AP Scholar, a three-time Academic All-American, and in 2015 became the first Joe Foss Institute national scholarship essay winner from Arizona in more than a decade. As a delegate to Arizona Boys State in 2016, he was elected President of the Senate and won the Americanism award for best patriotic essay.
Evan is a graduate of Phoenix’s Valley Youth Leadership program, was a 2016-2017 appointee on the Arizona Governor’s Youth Commission. served as a summer intern on the 2016 Re-Elect John McCain for Senate campaign, and was an intern with U.S. Senator Jeff Flake’s Phoenix office in 2017. Evan has received America’s highest award for volunteerism – the Presidential Volunteer Service Award – twice, and in 2017 was named the City of Phoenix’s Outstanding Young Man of the Year. Evan is a thirteen-time national and eight-time world powerlifting champion, and is the only high school powerlifter in history to break more than 100 world powerlifting records.
He was named AAU Strength Sports Athlete of the Year in 2014 & 2016, and received the AAU Joel Ferrell Award at the 2014 Junior Olympic Games. Evan will compete as a member of the Brown University men’s swimming and diving team in 2017. In high school, he was a three time Arizona state diving finalist and was Arizona Small Schools State Champion in 2014. In 2017, he placed 3rd and 4th respectively on 1-meter and 3-meter boards at the AAU national diving championships, He trains in the winter Olympic sport of skeleton, is the only four-time All-Sports Combine winner at the Junior Olympics, and holds a first degree black belt in taekwondo, having won TKD sparring titles at Junior Olympics and in multiple states.
