*** 2020-21 Academic Honors Candidate ***
 

Community Service: Sise was selected in 2019-20 to the inaugural Big Sky Conference Community Service Team, and was also EWU’s 2020 nominee for the America Football Coaches Association “Good Works” Team. Since he arrived at EWU, he has been involved with the following endeavors:
* 2020 reading program at Westview Elementary School (Spokane)
* 2020 Reading Video of Book “Little Beauty” (used for virtual reading program through the Spokane Library System)
* 2019 and 2020 Providence Children’s Hospital Visits (Spokane, Wash.)
* Lil EKG clinic (participated in the clinic conducted in 2019)
* 2019 Special Olympics Spring Games (at EWU’s Roos Field)
* 2020 & 2019 Cheney Clean Sweep (spring trash pick-up on the EWU campus and in the community of Cheney)
Said Eastern running backs coach and community service coordinator Kevin Maurice: “Dean is serving his larger purpose by contributing to the Cheney/Spokane community. He is basically involved in all of our community service projects and he is the person that usually gathers his teammates to follow his lead; our players rally around him in terms of his community service efforts. Dean is building a legacy at EWU while impacting the lives of others. He is serving his larger purpose and gives each community service project a new meaning with full effort. He is helping our team find its larger purpose, and create something bigger and longer lasting than he can ever imagine.

2019: He saw action in EWU’s last five games of the season and finished with four tackles. He was EWU’s special teams player of the week against Montana (10/26/19) and Portland State (11/23/19), with a tackle in each game. He made his season debut against the Griz and had a tackle on the opening kickoff. He also had a tackle on the opening kickoff of his Eagle career debut – his only other EWU appearance to that point – in the NCAA Division I Championship game in the 2018 season.
 
2018: Played in the NCAA Division I Championship Game where he had the tackle on the game’s opening kickoff. He was able to redshirt due to a new NCAA rule that allows student-athletes to play in up to four games and still redshirt. He wasn’t eligible to play as a transfer until fall quarter grades were posted. Sise joined Eastern as a transfer from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. He began attending classes at EWU in winter quarter of 2018.
 
Navy: Recruiting by most Northwest colleges, he originally took recruiting visits to Hawai’i and Washington State before joining the Midshipmen. Coming out of high school, he was named by the Seattle Times as a “White Chip” selection as one of the top 100 prospects in the state of Washington. He was a 2-star recruit as rated by 247sports.com. Sise played in four games – all victories -- as a true freshman in 2017 for Navy, which finished the year 6-6 and 4-4 in the American Athletic Conference. He had two tackles, one versus Cincinnati (9/23/17) and one in the team’s next game versus Tulsa (9/30/17) when he suffered a concussion and missed the rest of the season.
 
HS: Graduated from Juanita High School in 2017. As a senior in 2016, he earned All-State honors and was selected to play in the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl and All-State Game. He earned All-KingCo Conference honors as a first team linebacker and second team wide receiver. He had 59 tackles as a senior with four interceptions, three forced fumbles and a pair of sacks. He also caught 40 passes for 503 yards and six touchdowns as a senior, with career totals of 62 for 779 yards and 10 scores. The Rebels finished 9-3 overall and 5-1 in his junior season in 2015, beating Columbia River 57-7 in the first round of the State 3A Playoffs before bowing out in the quarterfinals. He was coached at Juanita by Lele Te’o. He also was a three-time state qualifier in track and field, finishing tenth in the long jump and helping his school finish third in the 4x100 Relay in his sophomore season in 2015. He also advanced to the state meet in the long jump as a senior. He had bests of 21-6 1/4 in the long jump, 11.34 in the 100 and 23.20 in the 200.
 
Personal: Management major at Eastern and had a 3.68 grade point average through winter quarter 2021. Born 9/13/98 in Bellevue, Wash. His parents are Robert Sise and Joanna Levin. His father played soccer at Colorado. His last name is pronounced “sice”
 

Year	GP	TT	Hi	S	TL-Yds	FF-FR	PBU	I-Yds
2018	1	1	1	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
2019	5	4	1	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
Totals	6	5	1	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0