Columbia University Athletics

Honors & Awards:
- 2016 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
- 2016 Second Team All-Ivy League
- Two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week (2016)
- 2017 First Team All-Ivy League
- 2018 Second Team Scholar All-East Region

2019: Played in all 17 matches, earning 16 starts ... Totaled 1,320 minutes of game action, primarily in the defensive midfield ... Took seven shots on the year, landing one on target ... Went 97 minutes in a season-opening 1-1 draw at Omaha (Sept. 6) ... Played 64 minutes to help the Lions shut out Monmouth, 2-0 (Sept. 27) ... Played all 110 minutes of a 0-0 draw at Dartmouth (Oct. 26) ... Started and went 71 minutes to help the Lions earn back-to-back shutouts, defeating Fordham, 1-0 (Oct. 29).

2018: Earned second team All-Ivy League honors … Named Second Team Scholar All-East Region … Started 15 games for the Lions … Had two goals on the season including a header against Army (Sept. 7) to tie the game and the winner against Yale (Oct. 27).

2017: Named First Team All-Ivy League, picking up his second career all-conference honor ... Played in 17 matches with 16 starts ... Scored the game-winning goal in the opening minutes against Fordham (Sept. 4) heading home a corner from Francisco Agrest ... Helped Columbia finish the regular season with the second lowest team goals against average in the NCAA, as the Lions surrendered just six goals in the regular season.

2016: Earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year and second team All-Ivy League honors ... Ended the season with two goals and one assist while starting 14 matches ... Scored a game-winning goal against Central Connecticut (Sept. 10) becoming the Ivy League Rookie of the Week ... Helped the Lions to their third consecutive overtime win with a header goal against Princeton (Oct. 15) while adding an assist on a John Denis goal in the first, becoming the Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

Personal: Captain of the U-16 and U-18 Canadian National teams ... Took part in the U-20 Canadian national team camp in 2015 ... Captain of the Vancouver Witecaps FC of the United States Soccer Federations Development Academy … Graduate of Burnaby Central Secondary after attending St. Francis Xavier High School until his junior year ... Born in Tehran, Iran … The son of Anahid and Raffi Markarian.