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I am the second youngest of four siblings. Unless you don’t count being eight minutes older than my twin brother, then I guess we are both the youngest. I was raised in a small town on the Texas border, a stone’s toss away from the Rio Grande. It would be an understatement to say that I was a weird kid growing up, but I definitely embraced it. Instead of pancakes for breakfast every morning, my mom made us freshly made beet and carrot juice. Both my brother and I had long hair down to our butts until we were five for my parents’ cult-ish belief that it would make us smarter. For recreation, we took my mom’s yoga classes and learned about how to use the power of our chi to heal.
Throughout high school, I became involved in student council where I found my passion for service. One of the greatest attributes about my mom is her selflessness. Her capacity to care about others and her inability to put herself before others is what inspires me to want to help people and change lives.
I am now in my third year at UT studying Supply Chain Management with a minor in MIS. Outside T4K, I am involved with the Texas Blazers, and the Tejas Club. Recently, I have begun to dedicate more time to the outdoors. I enjoy distance running, swimming, and hiking.

Why I Ride

There are many causes, many battles, many victories, and also losses. The reason I chose to pour my heart and my energy into this specific one is because there is a big problem, one that affects us on a global scale, and we all have the power to solve it.

My grandpa Eloy lived in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, "the City of Mountains". Though he was in his early 80s, he was still able to hike up and down the roads of Chipinque (a collection of neighborhoods that sat on steep slopes at the base of the mountains) to go to work every day. I admire the joy he found in staying active. Age did not limit the control that he had over his physical abilities, because he didn't retire until the day his cancer impaired him. He lost his battle with bone cancer a couple of years ago months after he was diagnosed.

He is the reason I ride today and the person who inspired me to join the fight. Cancer is a powerful, horrible, and ruthless killer. Male or female, young or old, black or white, it does not discriminate. Any one of us is susceptible to it. So why fight? What makes us different from any other boy scout fundraiser? Why are we riding our bikes to Alaska? It's because we can. Taylor Foreman, a recent 2012 Texas4000 alumni said that we may not be doctors or researchers that are finding a cure, but we are using our health and our youth in the best way that we know how to help find an end. We are all busy, and have hundreds of other obligations, but we are making time to invest in the human race, after all, we are our neighbor's keepers. Thank you so much for making time to read this. I ride for you.