How I got started

My cycling career started at the age of 12 when I saved up enough money to buy a racing bike to go out on rides with a friend who worked in a bike shop. I began to do some road racing and at 15 moved over to racing triathlons.  By 17 I was nationally ranked and a high school All-American, making podiums with people several years older than me at large events around the eastern half of the country.  I picked up a mountain bike to take to college with me and was soon racing that.  A free entry into a DH race got me going with that. 

Goals for the Future

I have a couple goals for the year:

1.  "Race" an Ironman in my second attempt at SIlverMan looking for a podium finish

2.  Continue to improve my race performances and placings.

3. Continue to have fun, make friends, and support the people supporting me.

What has been your most embarrassing moment?

Crashing off course at Fontana and landing on a bunch of spectators.

Some Personal Information About Me:

Relocated to California from Indianapolis in July of 2004.

Alumni of Indiana University, with a degree in Exercise Physiology

Competed in the Little 500 94,96,97

Work as a QA Compliance/Regulatory Associate at Vivometrics in Ventura, CA,.

Coach of a womens Little 500 cycling team from 1999-present

Why do you compete?

I compete because I love everything about it. Testing yourself against the course and the other riders. Getting to meet people you would otherwise not have the pleasure of meeting.

Finished my fist Ironman races on the hardest course in NA in the worst weather the race has ever seen at SIlverman in 2008, also my first race longer than an Olympic distance.

Competed In multiple national championships as a triathlete
High School All American in Triathlon 92-93
Won Age 15-19 age group and the 1992 Sun Times Triathlon-Largest triathlon in the world.

12th at the 1996 NCCA National Championships- Dual Slalom
Member of the 4th place overall XC team 1996 NCCA National Championships

1996 Indiana Sport DH State Champion

1st 2000 Ski Paoli Peaks Power X Games Snow Biker Cross