I have been training for 25+ years. At first, it was solely for sports, football and track. I played college football and ran track. After college I played 2 years of arena football. I got cut after that 2nd year and I was just done with it. By that time I was addicted to training but I had nothing to train for, so I just meathead lifted to see how strong I could get. I felt like I was just wasting my life and I was missing something. I decided to join the Army, because of that feeling. I signed an infantry contract and went off to basic. While I was in, I broke my back at Ranger School by falling down a mountain. I didn't know that at the time, so I got up and kept going. Needless to say it didn't heal great. After Ranger School is when I started Crossfit. I started Crossfit because I missed competing and I saw it had a lot of recovery stuff in the programming. That really helped my back and I got to compete. I got stationed at Ft. Carson and I joined Progressive Fitness Crossfit. I was trained by Beth and Chris Hoppe. I was primed to start doing very well in the open because of the guidance those two gave me. Unfortunately, I ran into the roughest part of my life. I found out I had no cartilage in my knee, I had a pulmonary embolism, I found out I had 5 herniated disc, found out my back didn't heal right, and I had a appendicitis. Right before the open that I was primed for is when I had my PE... I was heart broken because of the work I put in just to have it ripped away. I did the open anyways but I had to be very careful to not get my heart rate too high. I got out of the Army in 2015 and the place I moved back to didn't have a crossfit gym. I trained at a local gym until I built my garage gym. The last open I did I drove up to San Antonio to get judged at Lonestar Crossfit and I did very well in my age group. I had the flu the first two weeks of that open but I was able to push through my 103 temp and pull out top 200. I couldn't get up to San Antonio to do the qualifier. That was the last open I did because I just don't have the time to get up to a gym and I don't have the money to buy a 1000 dollar rower to be able to do the open every year. Now I just train hard and I train two girls that I'm talking into completing because they are beastly.

Open

Year Rank Worldwide Rank by Region Rank By Country Rank By Affiliate
2017 2652nd Men 192nd Men (35-39) 157th Men South Central 10th Men (35-39) South Central 1515th Men United States 110th Men (35-39) United States – –
2015 16385th Men 917th Men South West – – – –
2014 9003rd Men 527th Men South West – – – –
2013 10485th Men 847th Men Mid Atlantic – – – –

Age Group Quarterfinal

Year Rank Worldwide
2017 198th Men (35-39)

Benchmark Stats

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