How It All Began:
The first ten days of the 80’s I spent in the womb, the rest of the decade I enjoyed all the joys and misery of being an only child in Winter Park, Florida. The nineties brought major changes: I was cursed by a baby sister, Lindsey, who became a blessing no words will ever embody, and I moved to a small town in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina were I stayed until 2003. I like to say I grew up in Florida but did my growing up in North Carolina.

During college, I spent a summer in Orlando, Fl. and worked as a lifeguard at Disney. While there, I met a trainer, Carl at World’s Gym, who changed my life. He began strength training me for rugby, and during that time, I was introduced to the world of true physique training. One of his clients was a fitness competitor who said just the right things to interest me enough to research the sport. I wanted to be a part of the world I was reading about and became determined to do everything I could in order to be a fitness competitor.