I grew up in a small town in South Carolina where everybody knows everybody and a type of place where people leave their doors unlocked at night. I started playing baseball at the age of 5 and that continued on all throughout my youth and into high school. Being an only child, baseball gave me an outlet to be a part of a team and build foundational characteristics that have shaped me into the man I am today. I stopped pursuing baseball once I graduated high school and started to solely focus on my college career at Lander University where I graduated with my Bachelors in Exercise Science. Throughout my time in college I grew a passion for powerlifting after my dad took me to a local powerlifting meet near my hometown. Being a former powerlifter himself, he wanted to show me a new area to take my competitive spirit and boy was he right.