• 5k through ultra marathons
• road and trail
• mental performance
• strength training & nutrition
• setting personal bests
• positive relationship with running/racing
• build a healthy lifestyle

Whether you are looking to set a personal best, improve fitness, maintain/build a healthy lifestyle, or finish your first race, I can help you achieve your racing goals in anything from the 5k to ultra marathons. I specialize in mental performance and am on my way to becoming a certified consultant. The first step out the door is always the hardest. I can provide evidence-based, practical skill work to help develop your resilience, confidence, and mental toughness so that you’re well prepared for the to embrace the process of success even on the roughest of days. I believe that athletes are people first. Developing and valuing the growth of the holistic human being breeds success that you can take with you beyond the finish line.

• 2020 – 2022 Middle school boys’ and girls’ cross country
• 2023 – 2025 Varsity girls’ cross country; Nike Cross Regionals qualifiers each year
• 2019 – 2026 Varsity girls indoor and outdoor track and field; Nike Indoor Nationals qualifiers 2023, 2024, 2026

I’ve been a youth and varsity coach for seven years. I also have experience coaching collegiate athletes and athletes training for their first road and trail races.

I am fascinated by the psychology of athletes. I obtained my master’s degree in positive coaching and athletic leadership from Mizzou in 2025 and am currently pursuing certification as a mental performance consultant. When I’m not running, I’m trying to be a jack of all hobbies. I like reading, sketching, recently I picked up learning guitar, photography, I’m a movie fanatic, I love any outdoor activity. Any family and friends time I can get is the best. In all things, I hope to glorify Jesus Christ.

• Steve Magness
• Chris Wineburg
• Jay Johnson
• Jack Daniels Running Formula
• The Sprinters’ Compendium – Ryan Banta

I once had the opportunity to race a marathon at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico with a friend of mine who was stationed there at the time. I hadn’t trained specifically for this race, but I had done quite a few ultra marathons in the months before then and got away with running a sub-5-hour race in the desert with 8 miles being the farthest training distance I’d completed leading up to that race. This was the best personal example of how mentality and pressure affect performance. I was confident in my ability to cover that distance and wasn’t concerned with hitting a time goal. I really could go out there and just run for enjoyment. this helped spark my pursuit of studying the holistic athlete and the focus on the mental aspect of all athletics. As a bonus, I got to meet some pretty awesome people both at the race and enroute to the race. The running community is the best there is!

2023, 2024, 2025 Conference XC Coach of the Year

• 5k: 20:01; July 2014 – Whippet 5k
• 15.5mi (trail); 5:38:09; February 2023 – Nuhop Vertical Mile
• 26.2 (road): 3:57:00; November 2014 – Columbus Marathon
• 26.2 (trail): 6:30:40; March 2023; Mo Marathon
• 50k (trail): 6:15:24 June 2023; Summer Sasquatch
• 50mi (trail): 12:21:41; Burning River
• 12hour: 54 miles; October 2023; Ceely Rose 12-hour survival race