I have been involved in athletics and fitness my entire life. I fell in love with working out during my 8 years on the Snowbird/Sundance Ski Team and participating in preseason dry-land training. We would meet at a park and do everything from box jumps, 1-legged squats on fence posts, speed drills, and everything in between with the extremely minimal amount of equipment we had. CrossFit had not been created yet, but looking back, the workouts we did were very similar, just less structured and scientific. I was on my own for pre-season training during high school, and blindly followed the masses at the local 'globo-gym' doing leg presses, extensions, blah, blah, blah for a few intermittent sessions during the off-season. I never fully bought into it and signed out of my membership for running with my dogs in the mountains and mountain biking. During my Sophomore year in high school, my mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away 6 months later. After that experience, I knew that I wanted to help people and save lives. I got EMT certified and followed my new found desire of becoming a medical doctor, thinking that that would be a legitimate way to help the world out. During my final semester of Pre-Med classes, I was introduced to CrossFit by my squad boss at Utah County Wildland Fire. I knew that I had found something substantial, something that changed my life in that one workout that I got halfway through and left me in a sad state next to the toilet in a pool of sweat and goo. Wow, that was powerful! I knew that I could use this new thing to improve my life and those around me.
After that, I immersed myself in CrossFit and everything that Coach Glassman and others had to offer. I turned my sister's garage into a gym (thank you!) and followed the main site programming until I could do all the workouts as prescribed. I became Level 1 certified in October of 2010, and started training people in my (awesome) garage. Since then I have been lucky enough to train over 50 students and expand into Elevated CrossFit in late 2011 with the help of many friends! Nothing gets me more stoked than seeing a student achieve a hard earned goal, and I love working just as hard as them to help them get there.
I have also been the head coach of the Sundance Ski Team for the past 6 years. The first year I coached I knew that I wanted to do it the rest of my life. I love coaching kids and get a lot of enjoyment from their enthusiasm, optimism, and love for life. Being able to influence the future is a very humbling and powerful job that has taught me more than anything about people. My experience running the team has melded directly into CrossFit and has made Elevated CrossFit a fun and exciting place to be apart of! Come join the family!
- CrossFit Level 1 Certified
- CrossFit Kids Certified
- Olympic Lifting Certified
- 6 years experience training athletes
- Continuing to learn all day all year.
