HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Kapa’a High School...Lettered four years in baseball and football and two years in track...Named First-Team All-State by The Honolulu Advertiser...Selected to the All-Tournament team during State Championship Tournament...Two-time conference batting champion (.600, 2000; .524, 1999)...Received Golden Glove Award as a utility player...1997 KIF Player of the Year...Was starting second baseman in the State All-Star Game and batted second in the line-up...Named 2000 Scholar-Athlete of the Year by his high school.

PERSONAL: Born June 9, 1979 in Kauai, HI...Son of Clifford and Patty Furtado...Major is Kinesiology...Favorite athlete is Ricky Henderson.