1995
Todd A. Harris Phelps Scholar Todd Harris didn’t waste any time making a name for himself. He joined the varsity football and baseball teams as a ninth-grader and played both sports all four years. He was voted to the league All-Star team for baseball every year and for football in his upper and senior years. Harris was also a three-year starter on PA’s varsity basketball team. In his upper year, he captained the football and basketball teams and was named Male Athlete of the Year by the Eagle-Tribune. During his senior year, he was a captain of all three teams, led the baseball team 8
to the Central New England Prep School title, and was awarded the Yale Bowl at Commencement. Harris started and lettered in baseball his first three years at Harvard. In 1997 and 1998, his team won back-to-back Ivy League championships, finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. During the NCAA tournament his junior year, Harris injured his shoulder, ending his baseball career. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1999 with a BA degree in economics. In 2010, Harris earned an MBA degree from UCLA-Anderson.
Harris has focused on a career in the retail sector, working at Gap, Inc., and Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco, and most recently at Nike in Portland, Oregon, where he is senior product manager for Direct to Consumer Planning Technology. Harris enjoys golfing, hiking, and exploring the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Jessie, and two children, Marlowe (5) and Sullivan (3).