About Me

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About: I was born in the desert oasis of Dubai, UAE. My Father is from Montana, and my wonderful mother is from England. My younger brother was born a year later, and the four of us lived there for 3 awesome years (I obviously don’t remember being an infant but I’ve heard those years were awesome). My family then moved to an isolated international community in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where I would live for 12 years and call home forever. I played every sport I that I could, and tried to be the best at all of them. I also had the great privilege of traveling to all sorts of interesting places around the world. The perspective I have acquired from the various cultures of the world is a fundamental component of who I am. At the age of 15, I left home and went to boarding school at St. Stephens Episcopal School, right here in Austin. I lived in the dorms at St. Stephens with guys and girls from all sorts of backgrounds for three years, and learned how to think and survive without my parents. Just three years in this amazing city wasn’t enough, so I came to UT to study Mechanical Engineering. I joined the UT Men’s Club Soccer Team in my first semester, and then travelled the long, hard road to becoming a Texas Wrangler during my second semester.

I have always held myself to the highest of standards, and I live for adventure. I like getting out of my comfort zone because I feel the most alive when I am pushing myself to my limits. I love talking to people who are different than I am, and I firmly believe that you can learn something from everyone. My plan for the rest of my life is to pursue the things that I am passionate about with anyone who shares my passion, so we’ll see how that works out for me.

Why I Ride

I ride for anyone who feels helpless and alone in their fight, and I will give my all for them for no other reason than because I can. One thing I have learned is that good health is something that you don’t really appreciate until it’s gone. I refuse to wait for this disease to affect someone else that I am close to before I start to do something about it, because at that point it will be too late. I want people who are struggling to know that there are strangers whom they have never even met that care about their fight. Whether cancer has dramatically changed your life or not has nothing to do with the fact that it has changed the lives of others, and I know I would be selling myself short by not doing everything in my power to support the global community by ridding the world of this disease. Cancer has affected my family and the families of my friends, and although there is nothing I can do to change the past, I can most certainly have an impact on the future. Knowing that there are people out there who need my help, I’ll be damned if I refrain from supporting them on the basis that “it’s not my problem”. For that reason, I ride for Hope!