Columbia University Athletics

2023-24 (Junior): Redshirt.

2022-23 (Sophomore): (ITF) Finished third in shot put with a PR mark of 56-6.5/17.23m at the Dr.Sander Columbia Challenge (Jan. 27-28) … Competed for Columbia in shot put at Heps, placing 7th with a mark of 55-7/16.94m (Feb. 25-26) … (OTF) Took third place with a mark of 50-3.5/15.33m in SP at the 2023 Springtime (Apr. 30)

2021: Saw action in one game as a first-year on the offensive line … Listed as the backup center on the depth chart … Made career debut in season opener vs. Marist (Sept. 18).
 
2020
 
Chose to take a gap year due to the COVID-19 pandemic … Did not enroll at Columbia.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
 
A 2020 graduate of Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, N.J., where he played four years of varsity football for Head Coach Brian Dunn … Three-time First Team All-State selection in Group 4 … Member of the Super 100 All-State team as a senior … Second Team All-State selection as a senior … First Team All-North New Jersey pick as a senior … Three-time First Team All-Bergen County selection as an offensive lineman … Three-time First Team All-New Jersey Group 4 selection … Three-time All-League selection … Named the Bergen County Record North Jersey Athlete of the Week … Named team captain as a senior offensive and defensive lineman … First Team All-County offensive lineman as a sophomore … Director of Athletics Association of New Jersey Scholar Athlete of the Year honoree … Led the Golden Knights to four straight sectional appearances and a combined 38-10 overall record … Led the Golden Knights to an 8-4 record and advanced to sectional final as a senior … As a defensive lineman, picked three career passes, one which he returned for a touchdown … Helped lead the Golden Knights to an 8-3 record and sectional final appearance as a junior … Led the Golden Knights to the Group 4 state championship, a 12-0 record as a sophomore … Also competed for four years in indoor and outdoor track and field where he was a thrower … All-American thrower as a senior … Finished in second place at Eastern States … Two-time team captain in track and field … Two-time First Team All-Bergen County in the shot put … Won state sectional championship in the shot put during junior year … Finished third at the New Jersey State Indoor Meet of Champions in the shot put as a junior … Set school-record with 54-10 ½ shot put during indoor track and field and personal-best in outdoor shot put was 61-7 ¾ during junior season … The mark ranked No. 7 in the nation during the indoor 2020 season … National Honor Society member … Nine-time Scholar-Athlete award winner … National Merit Scholar Commended Student honoree … 11-time Scholar-Athlete award winner at NVOT … Member of the Northern Valley Leadership Program … Served as a peer mentor … Served as a counselor for the school’s track and football camps.
 
PERSONAL
 
Born Patrick Bosque Passalacqua on October 20, 2001 in New York, N.Y. … Son of John Passalacqua and Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Old Tappan, N.J. … Has an older sister Fiona … Father graduated from Cornell in 1985 where he played football and competed in track and field as a thrower from 1981-85 … Cousin Nicole Passalacqua graduated from Columbia Teacher’s College in 2016 … Hobbies and interests include watching movies … Favorite home-cooked meal is his dad’s chicken tortilla soup … Role model is his mother who came from immigrant parents and worked to become a highly successful business executive and because he admires her work ethic and passion for success … Became interested in Columbia through Offensive Coordinator Mark Fabish, who was one of the first coaches to reach out to him … Selected Columbia because he fits into the culture and hopes to challenge himself in the classroom and on the playing field, and for the elite education and football program as well as the endless opportunities in Manhattan … Selected Columbia over offers from Syracuse, Harvard, Yale and Colgate … Enrolled in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science … Also plans to compete in track and field at Columbia.

ARTICLES
https://www.northjersey.com/videos/sports/high-school/football/2019/11/12/100-yards-pat-passalacqua-old-tappan/2578091001/