Life is hard. Everyone knows that. Everyone knows they’re going to face life. The test of one’s true character though, is how they deal with that adversity. Some people become depressed, some people struggle through it, and then there’s Champ Pederson (‘06). Champ was born on October 2nd, 1987 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California. If you were the nurse introducing him to the world, you wouldn’t be able to tell he was any different from the baby down the hall, but he

Champ Pederson is a guy who truly lives up to his name. From his medals for track and field, to his job at the Palo Alto Apple store, Champ brings a zest for life to everything he does. And Champ is just one of the extraordinary Pederson siblings: Joc Pederson plays center field for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tyger Pederson plays for the Dodgers’ Rookie team and Jacey Pederson was a standout soccer player at Paly who is now playing for UCLA. The athletic genes are not hard to t