I have competed in organized sports my entire life. I played two years of professional
baseball in the Tampa Bay Devil Ray Organization. I was a closer (pitcher) and threw anywhere
from 93 to 95 miles per hour. I wrestled from the age of eight through high school. I won the
Oklahoma Open wrestling tournament twice in high school. I only got to wrestle it twice. This
tournament is a tournament that fields wrestlers from around the country, and has always been a
tough tournament. My weight alone had three state champions in it from the previous year.
Throughout my athletic career I have only had two good coaches, my mother and my father.
Whether it be my mother pulling me aside in a little league game to feed me soft toss into a
fence, (you know that is how kids get better, muscle memory. Actually swing the bat, it does no
good for some coach to yell and try to explain) or my rather spending thousands of hours on the
baseball diamonds, football fields, and wrestling rooms, teaching me the proper way to do things,
these are the only two coaches that I ever learned a damn thing from.
My mother is one of the top Field Hockey coaches in the country. She has served on the
National Federation Field Hockey Rules Committee, and she recently won her third SPC Title.
She is also an English teacher at a very prestigious high school. Anybody who has ever seen a
competitive field hockey game can attest to the fact that it is a brutally tough sport. It consists of
a ball that is much harder than a baseball, and players running all game for an hour, on a 100
yard field beating the hell out of the ball and sometimes each other.
My father played middle linebacker at the University of Colorado. He started as a
sophomore and had it not been for THREE major knee surgeries, he would have played several
years of pro ball. This is not a case of a son embellishing his father's accomplishments. Bottom
line, his knee surgeries were not these little surgeries people have today. My dad blew his ACL,
MCL, and tore both cruciates on one play. At 6 foot 3inches and 240 lbs he ran a 4.6 40 and
had/has incredible athleticism due to being a high school wrestler. He then turned to coaching
and coached high school football, wrestling, and track for 20 years. For the last 8 years he has
been a high school principal, and I can assure you that the students love to watch this man hit a
speed bag. He is the only principal I know that still goes down and wrestles at wrestling
practice. He is also the only man I know that has wrestled an 8 foot 6inch Canadian Brown
Bear. True Freak of Nature.
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I am 6 feet tall, and I lift in the 275 lb division most of the time. I started competitive
lifting 2 Y2 years ago. I train using my father's program. The program consists of lots of sets
with heavy weight. I don't believe in the theory that a workout should be done in one hour. I am
completely drug free and I train for two to three hours at a time. This ensures that I will have a
very strong base, and I will never miss a lift due to fatigue. If I miss a lift it is because gravity
beat me that day, but it won't be because I was tired or worn out. My dad is my workout partner
and the best spotter a person could ask for.
I wear a Titan Fury and it is, by far, the best shirt I have ever worn. All of my lifts have
been done in single ply polyester. I am totally drug free, and I will never take a drug due to the
fact that I believe it taints a person's accomplishments, and I have far too much pride.
2002 USAPL National Champion Junior Division 518lbs
2003 W ABDL National Champion Junior Division 60 llbs
2003 USPF Bench Nationals Champion Open Division and Outstanding Lifter 622lbs
2003 W ABDL World Champion Junior Division and Outstanding Lifter 633lbs
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