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Eric continued orienteering while attending the University of Washington, doing focused physical and technical training during his first years at university. As a 19-year-old in 1993, he tried unsuccessfully to make the U.S. Team to compete in the World Orienteering Championships in New York. The following year, he competed in JWOC in Gdynia, Poland, as well as in World Cup races in Denmark and Norway, and in 1995, he qualified for his first WOC team, racing the Short Distance Qualification Race and the first leg of the Relay in Germany. Eric's best individual placement at WOC is 40th in the Sprint in Tampere, Finland in 2001, and his best relay placement is 22nd in Aichi, Japan in 2005. His favorite and currently strongest discipline is the Long Distance, and he was the U.S. Long Distance Champion from 2011-2014. He was 2nd to Sergei Ryzhkov in 2015. Eric has represented the United States 14 times at the World Orienteering Championships -- 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014 -- and he intends to keep competing as long as he is still enjoying training and racing and remains among the best U.S. orienteers.