How I got started

I started racing on a haro dirt jumping bike when I was 9 years old. I quickly showed my parents that I was serious about racing and they got me a race bike. I was hooked on racing BMX at my first night at Lebanon BMX and have been racing at least 3 times per week . I consistently race at 4 tracks and I travel with my team all over the East Coast. I am currently 15 years old and I turned expert 5 years ago. I also started to race in the cruiser class 4 years ago.

Goals for the Future

My goal for 2007 is to continue to have fun and make friends, defend my State Championship for the 4th year in a row, and to place top 10 in my district in both 20 inch and cruiser class. This year I plan on racing at as many ABA and NBL multi-point and national races as I can.

Some Personal Information About Me:

I am 16 years old and love racing and riding all types of bikes. When I am not racing I am dirt jumping (or making dirt jumps) ride parks and skateboarding with my friends. We also do cross country rides/ road rides and ride our motorcycles as often as we can. In the winter I snowboard every chance I get.

Do you train? What does your schedule look like?

I started to weight train during the winter. I try to lift 3 times a week. Now that it is getting nice I still lift 3 times a week but now I use my stumpy gate to do sprints everyday. I also do a lot of bike/skate park riding to keep in shape and I have a road bike and do some longer rides to build on my endurance. I`m on one of my bikes everyday.

Do you like to travel? What's your best (clean) road trip story?

I compete all over the county because I love riding and meeting new people. Along with racing I started doing some park competitions. Last summer I built up a new free style bike (that I bought with my own money from cutting grass and saver stamps). The day I built it up I talked my dad into taking me to Stone Cliff skate/bike park to break it in and work out bugs. When we got there we found out they were having a free style competition. I never competed in free style before so I figured I had nothing to lose .. no pressure just go out and have fun. After signing up they called me back to registration and told me they did not have a ?kids group (16 and under)? I decided to enter into the 16 and over group. I had to borrow a CD with music from another person in the competition. So for the first time on the new bike no music and no other kids in my age group I went out and did my run. I had a blast, I felt it went well but I realized there was no way I would win. I watched the other riders and they were al so good. So when they announced the winners I was hoping to make the top 10, top 5 would be great. They started to announce the winners. Once they got to the top 3 I figured my run was not as good as I thought. I hooked up with my dad and was walking out at least I had fun right? While walking to the car my dad stopped me and told me I won 1st place. We still laugh about that day and I will remember that run forever.

This year I am State Champion in 15 Cruiser, I am currently in the top 10 in district points in both 20" and 24". This year I raced all 7 state qualifier races in Pennsylvania, the East Coast nationals in Egg harbor NJ, Quaker State Nationals in Bensalem, the Tarheel Nationals in South Carolina, First State Nationals in DE, Trilogy Regional and the NBL Grand Nationals and the Redline Cup Fianls in Ohio. I met and made friends with a lot of cool racers from all across the country.