My athletic career began at a very young age, competing in just about every sport imaginable. As a sophomore in high school, it became evident that it was time to focus on just one sport, baseball. After my senior year in high school, I earned a baseball scholarship to play at Rice University, and in 2003 became a College World Series Champion.
Fun fact: since I red-shirted my freshman year and thus was on the team for 5 years, I have 5 championship rings! I started to run out of fingers!
Favorite Athletic Achievement: In a practice intrasquad game in the fall of 2003, I hit a homerun off of Philip Humber, who later went on to play in the Major Leagues and also became one of only 21 players in MLB history to throw a perfect game when he completely dominated the Seattle Mariners on April 21, 2012.
After my baseball career ended, I focused on triathlons, Brazilian jiu jitsu, Krav Maga, and CrossFit competitions as an outlet for my competitive drive.
Rice University, Houston, TX
B.S. Chemical Engineering
B.A. Environmental Engineering
University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX
M.S. Commercial Real Estate Finance
Let this be a lesson to all you kids out there…put some serious thought into your choice for major! I was young and stubborn, and the Athletic Academic Advisor at Rice told me that athletes shouldn’t major in engineering because it was too hard considering the time commitment associated with D-1 athletics. To which I said “Sign me up for the hardest one. And then add the second hardest one.”