Built By Latte Built: Orrin Pharmin

Welcome to MP’s monthly segment, Built By Latte Built.

This segment highlights athletes training at Latte Built who are chasing their fitness goals and inspiring others along the way.

This month, we feature Orrin Pharmin—a track and field athlete with years of experience of representing the CNMI locally and regionally.

At the 2022 Oceania Athletics Masters Challenge in Australia, he won gold in the men’s 110m hurdles and high jump, five silvers in the shot put, 60m, 100m, 200m, and 400m, and a bronze in the javelin. Later in 2022 at the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games, he earned silver in the men’s octathlon and competed in the 4x400m relay.

In 2023, he won gold in the 200m at the Northern Marianas Athletics Championships, with additional silver and bronze finishes in relay and sprint events. That same year at the CNMI Oceania Cup, he collected four gold medals in the 60m, 100m, 200m, and high jump, a silver in the 4x100m relay, and a bronze in the shot put. He took a break in 2024 and helped coach the athletics team that competed in the Micronesian Games, then in 2025, he added five more gold medals at the Oceania Athletics Masters Series virtual meets in Saipan, winning the 60m, 100m, 200m, long jump, and javelin.

Pharmin said he was sponsored by Latte Built through owner Derek Cutting when he was training for the 2022 Mini Games and since then, has been using the gym for his workouts. His workouts consist of a lot of strength training, plyometrics, Olympic lifts, and running.

Latte Built, for him, has been essential to his development as a sprinter, jumper, and thrower. “As a track and field athlete, I need a place that supports strength, power, mobility, and injury prevention. The equipment and space at Latte Built Gym helps and allows me to train at a high level year round which is critical for elite performance,” he said.

For serious athletes or just a regular person trying to seek a healthier lifestyle, Pharmin said, “I believe Latte Built Gym is the best place. Plus, it’s convenient—the fact that it’s open 24/7, it allows people like me who have very hectic schedules to come in anytime instead of rushing to get to the gym before it closes.”