High School: Two-year starter for Grand Haven High School, playing in the rugged OK Red conference on the west side of the state of Michigan...was a two-time captain for the Buccaneers and earned back-to-back All-OK Red honors, making the Muskegon Chronicle Dream Team as a senior...finished his high school career with 131 tackles, 21 for loss, five sacks and four pass breakups in two seasons...two-sport athlete who also ran track at Grand Haven...solid student who earned Academic All-State honors while playing for the Buccaneers, and an active volunteer through the Grand Haven football program's Elementary Reading program and the Grand Haven High School Student Leadership Council...following in the footsteps of his older brother, Landon, who played football at Hillsdale and graduated this past spring...parents are Mark and Andrea VanBeek.