Events: 60m, 100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x200m
PR’s: 100m - 10.57 (2018)
200m - 21.91 (2018)
60m - 6.93 (2019)
4x100 - 41.32 (2018)
4x200 - 1:29.06 (2019)
Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Maple Grove, MN
High School: Totino Grace High School
Personal:
My proudest moment was breaking the school record in the 100m dash at the Bolstorff Twilight Meet and sending the 4x100 team to nationals at the UW-LaCrosse Last Chance meet while simultaneously breaking the school record.
I am an English Major, with a focus in Creative Writing and a Psychology Minor. My personal goals with my major are to learn how to write well and expand my knowledge of the language I naturally speak.
After graduation I would love to become a freelance writer that creates stories to share to others, or a journalist that reports on the fascinating world we live in today. If I were to aim for any plans with the psychology minor, I'd look towards helping those who sustain mental disabilities. I have always enjoyed offering a helping hand to those who may need it. Lastly, I'd hope to coach for a track team someday, and teach everybody how to be super speedy.
There were many things that attracted me to St. John’s. The St. John's community is so closely-knit that you could make a blanket out of it. I immediately felt welcomed when I toured here for the first time, and my impressions of the college haven't changed since. I've met so many different people who are always ready for a good time to talk or be involved in something, especially on weekends. Furthermore, I'm someone who prefers to be outdoors, and nothing feels more relaxing to me than walking around the vast forests which encompass St. John's. It's simply paradise.
Sometimes, it's hard to believe that I wasn't raised in Wisconsin, because I LOVE cheese. My coaches and teammates soon discovered this on our trip to La Crosse for the NCAA Championships. At about the halfway point, we stopped at a pizza parlor. When we walked in, I was wearing a dark green t-shirt which had the words "powered by cheese" printed on it. Most of the people on the team knew that I liked cheese, but the real question was "how much did I like it?". They would soon find out the answer.
When we got to the register, I ordered a cheese pizza (wow, big surprise there), and we all sat down waiting for our orders. When the pizzas came to us, we all started eating. I ate a couple pieces, but then I realized that there was a parmesan cheese shaker in the middle of the table. Despite its pricey reputation, parmesan is by far my favorite type of cheese, so I asked Charlie Haik to pass it down to me.
As soon as I received the shaker, I took off the cap, and started to pour mountains of the stuff onto my pizza. This was usually a typical move for me at any place which offered these shakers, but my team didn't know this. When I did that, I looked over at all of them, and I could've sworn that they'd looked like they just saw a pig fly. Since they'd seen that, there's now a theory that cheese is the source to my supersonic speed. Is it true? Probably, I don't have any other explanations for it.
Q & A:
Q: Which coach would you pick to live on a deserted island with and why?
A: Jeremy. Always has a solution for everything.
Q: If you were in the coliseum and were challenged to fight wiener dogs, what is the highest number of wiener dogs you could defeat?
A: Zero. I'm a runner, not a fighter.
Q: Would you rather be the world's greatest racquetball player or have $20 right now?
A: Kwik Trip sounds like an awesome idea at the moment, so I'll take the 20. If I became a racquetball player, I don't think I'd like it too much.