Columbia University Athletics

2020
 
Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
 
A 2018 graduate of Union High School, where he played four years of varsity football for Head Coach Matt Labrum … Named to the 2017 Utah Class 3A All-State team by the Deseret News as a senior running back … Earned Class 3A All-State honors from the Salt Lake City Tribune … Named to the Class 3A All-North Region First Team as a senior … Utah Academic All-State selection … Earned National Football Foundation Senior Scholar-Athlete and Junior Award honors by the Utah Chapter … Three-year team captain in football … Saw action at both running back and middle linebacker … Led Utah’s Class 3A in rushing in 2017 with 1,139 yards and 11 touchdowns on 158 carries … Averaged 7.3 yards per carry and 103.5 total rushing yards per game … Also caught 14 passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns … Concluded the year with 13 total touchdowns … Registered five 100-yard rushing games on year including totals of 198, 197 and 173 yards respectively … Finished with 27 tackles on defense as a senior … Led the Cougars to a 6-5 overall record, 3-2 in 3A North and state playoff appearance as a senior …. Missed his junior season due to injury ... Rushed for 189 yards and one touchdown on 31 carries, caught two passes for 68 yards and made 10 tackles as a sophomore … Also competed in track and field, and wrestling … As a four-year letterman and three-year team captain in track and field, ran the 300-meter hurdles and 4x400-meter relay events … Helped set school-record in the 4x400-meter relay and ran a personal-best of 42.47 in the 300-meter hurdles … Named a Science Sterling Scholar … Named an Elks MVS National Semifinalist … Involved in a variety of volunteer activities including work as an intern at the Uintah Basin Medical Center Operation Room, Boy Scouts of America and served as a coach of a Olympic Science Team.
 
PERSONAL
 
Born Jarom Whitlock Miller on September 27, 1999 in Provo, Utah … Son of Bret and Evlyn Miller … One of seven brothers and sisters: Everet, Bryn, Jaxon, Sade, Jensen, and Tyce … Both of his parents attended BYU … Brother Everet played rugby at BYU … Grandfather Clark Miller played rugby at BYU from 1967-69 … Has competed in various triathlons … Served as lead in several school musicals … Hobbies and interests include swimming, spikeball, running, hiking, reading, performing arts, and hanging out with family and friends … Person in history he would most like to meet: Louis Pasteur … Served the last two years (2018 and 2019) on a church service mission in Cambodia … Fluent in Khmer … Originally committed to Dartmouth but changed his mind after a friend spoke about how amazing Columbia was … Was sent home early on his mission after serving 21 of 24 months and was able to change his decision … Chose Columbia in order to receive a world-class education in New York City and because it would prepare him for medical school with the well-rounded Core Curriculum … Selected Columbia over football offers from Dartmouth, Brown, and Johns Hopkins and academic scholarships from BYU and Utah … Has a career goal of attending medical school in hopes of becoming a surgeon … Enrolled in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and intends to major in Biomedical Engineering.