Otto ya fara halartar Jami'ar Clarkson bayan da New York Rangers ya zaba shi a gasar zakarun Turai a shekara ta 2000.
Zaɓin NHL. A lokacinsa na farko, an zaba shi don shiga gasar zakarun duniya na 1983 na Junior Ice Hockey. A lokacinsa tare da Clarkson, Otto ya kasance dan wasa mai kyau, yana taimaka wa kungiyar ta shiga gasar NCAA a matsayin dan shekara na biyu kuma kusan ya shawo kan rashin cin nasara 4-goal a kan Minnesota <unk> Duluth a wasan kusa da na karshe.