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Sports Hall of Fame Bio.

DJ Powers

DJ was a four-year member of the varsity golf team. He was a three-time SCCAL MVP, and he led the Mariners to three-straight SCCAL team championships. As a senior, in 1992, he led the team to our only CCS golf championship in school history. During his senior year, DJ also won the Northern California Junior Match Play Championship. This is a week-long event played at courses all over the Bay Area, and it required DJ to win six match plays in a row against the best competition in northern California. DJ matriculated to San Jose State University, where he continued to golf. In 1996, at the Honors Course in Chatanooga, Tennessee, he helped the Spartans to a 10th place finish at the NCAA National Championships, their best finish in over thirty years. That same year, in the first-round of the Western Intercollegiate played at Pasatiempo, DJ beat Tiger Woods 70 to 73. After graduating in 1997 from San Jose with a degree in Business Management, DJ was hired as the men’s and women’s golf coach at Santa Clara University. He was the youngest head golf coach in the nation. In his two years at Santa Clara, his teams improved considerably, and in 2000, Stanford University hired DJ away from the Broncos. From 2000-2003, DJ served as an assistant coach for both the Stanford men’s and women’s teams. The men’s team qualified for the NCAA’s in 2001, and the women’s team qualified every year and had two Top 10 finishes. At Stanford, DJ also coached Hillary Homeyer, who won the 2003 US Open. After Stanford, DJ started working for the video game company Electronic Arts. Among his responsibilities, DJ was the producer for the Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf Game in 2005, 2006, and 2007. DJ directed Tiger Woods and several other PGA professionals in motion-capture shots, advertising events, and TV commercials. DJ also worked as an actor at Electronic Arts, and his golf swing and animations were used for many of the characters in the game.  In 2003, DJ earned his MBA from San Jose. Today, DJ lives in Seattle and works in Business Development for Valve, another leading company in the video game industry. DJ is married to Jessica, and they have a new son, Sam. DJ was presented into the Hall by his father, Bob.

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