So, here’s a little bit of information about me. I turned 30 today (woo hoo) and I feel like I’m starting the newest, most exciting chapter of my life. I’m from a very small town in Central Texas and grew up out in the country…yes on a farm…yes I have cows and horses. I have the most amazing mom EVER and she is seriuosly my best friend. I went to college at Baylor University and that’s where I began what I thought would be my life-long career. As a sophomore in college I volunteered as a student strength and conditioning coach working with all the athletic teams at Baylor. From day one I knew I had found the greatest job ever…training athletes for intense competition in the Big XII…it was awesome!! One of my co-workers re-introduced me to the love of Christ that first year and I was saved January 21, 1999! I grew and learned so much over the next couple of years and my love of strength and conditioning led me to The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a year and then to Clemson University for my graduate school work. I was able to train some of the best athletes in the country and in the world. While I was at Clemson I started going to Newspring Church where my spiritual life exploded (in a good way) and I saw and experienced the realness of the love of Christ in the most radical way. I am still involved with that church to this day even though I haven’t lived there in almost five years! In the summer of 2004 I was hired on full-time at Clemson as the Director of Olympic Sports (basically I was in charge of the training of all the teams except football and basketball). This was the most amazing opportunity for a young, female strength coach and I was so honored that my boss had so much faith in my work that he would hire me for that position. A couple of months later I was offered a job back at Baylor, where I had begun my career…at first I didn’t want to go back because I loved Clemson and I loved being involved in my church there. As I prayed (for two months straight) I kept feeling like the Lord was leading me back to Texas…closer to my family, but completely against my will. For the next year or two I was pretty bitter at God for moving me and I kept asking what my purpose was; eventually I gave in to His will and took the opportunity to really get involved in the lives of my co-workers, athletes and coaches. I was able to start seeing God work through me in the lives of these young student-athletes and I finally accepted that I was supposed to be at Baylor to do God’s work. The last 10 years of my life as a strength coach has drawn out so many qualities that God placed in me that I never would have realized had I not spent 12-15 hours a day investing my time into the development and character of so many young athletes. I also never would have gotten the chance to go to Kenya with a group of student-athletes that sparked a calling in my life to go into missions. Now I get to start this whole new chapter as I begin a new decade of life with what looks like some amazing people who are coming from all over the US to follow God’s call into mission work. Ok, so enough about my career…here’s me in a nutshell:
Things I love:
My mom
Ice cream
All sports…it’s very hard to find one I haven’t played at least once!
Being outside
Laughing
Fried pickles 🙂
My amazing friends
Coffee
Photography
Travelling
Scuba diving
Anything that provokes an adrenaline rush!!!
Sunrise and Sunset
Music
Things I’m not too crazy about:
Snakes
Rude people
Rodents
Cold weather…I’m from Texas, I like it HOT!
Dogs…I know, how could I not like dogs? I just don’t
Ok, I think that’s enough about me for now.
