Former division one college football player and experienced elite athlete, I bring to OEG Stretching Strength a combination of my passion for sports, fitness, and healing achieved through a career competing in track, football, basketball, as well as personal recovery from sports-related injuries.

While sports had always been present in my life since a young age, the desire for healing was equally important. As a small child, I wanted to be a doctor, telling my sick grandmother “I'm going to fix you.“ Sports and healing were a natural complement, and these two things were realized when I received a football scholarship from Oklahoma State University. This was an opportunity to compete in sports on a collegiate level, while earning a Bachelor of Science in Health Wellness.

With sports comes injury, both during and after college – right shoulder surgery, umbilical hernia surgery, medial and lateral injuries to both knees. Throughout the recovery process, I continued to train in the gym and work through these injuries, later receiving extensive education in personal training, Olympic-style lifting, TRX, Bosu, and other systems.

As a young athlete, I witnessed fundamental things missing from a lot of training programs, such as nutrition, hydration, stretching, and proper warm-up and cool-down. To this day, many young athletes, including pro athletes, drink sodium-filled sports drinks thinking they are making healthy decisions. How wrong they are, and I was once one of them.