2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 67 kg

Years on Team USA: 8 (2015-19, 2021-25)

Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo.

Club: U.S. Army WCAP

College: Northern Michigan University

High School: South Miami HS

Hometown: Miami, Fla.

Born: March 18, 1994

Height: 5’8”

Past Olympic Teams

2020 Olympics (10th at 67 kg)

Past Senior World Teams

2023 Senior World Championships (12th at 67 kg), 2022 Senior World Championships (11th at 67 kg)

Past Age-Group World Teams

2017 U23 World Championships (18th at 66 kg), 2014 Junior World Championships (12th at 66 kg)

Career Highlights

U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up
Two-time Final X champion (2022, 2023)
2023 Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion
2020 Olympian
2017 U23 World Team member
2019 Senior Nationals champion
Two-time World Team Trials runner-up (2018, 2021)
2016 Non-Olympic U.S. World Team Trials runner-up
2017 Grand Prix Zagreb Open champion
2016 Pan American Championships runner-up
2016 UWW University Nationals champion
Four-time Bill Farrell International champion (2014, 2018, 2019, 2022)

Career Biography

2024: Pan American Championships gold medalist…Eighth at Pan American Championships Olympic Games Qualification Tournament…26th at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event…

2023: Final X champion…Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion…Fifth at the Polyk Imre & Varga Janos Memorial (Hungary)…11th at Zagreb Open.

2022: Final X champion…USMC U.S. Open champion, Bill Farrell Memorial International champion…

2021: Olympic Team Trials champion... Second at Senior World Team Trials... 10th at Olympic Games... 7th at Poland Open

2020: Pan Am Olympic Qualifier runner-up... Third at Pan Am Championships...

2019: Senior Nationals champion... Bill Farrell International champion... Third at World Team Trials Challenge Tournament... Tenth at the Haparanda Cup (Sweden)

2018: Bill Farrell International champion... World Team Trials runner-up... third at 2018 U.S. Open Fifth in Granma Cup (Cuba)…

2017: World Team Trials runner-up… Grand Prix Zagreb Open champion… Second in U.S. Open… Second in Dave Schultz Memorial International…Second in Tbilisi Grand Prix…

2016: Second in Non-Olympic U.S. World Team Trials ... Third in U.S. Olympic Team Trials… UWW University Nationals champion… Second in Pan American Championships… Second in Dave Schultz Memorial International… Fifth in U.S. Open…

2015: Third in Bill Farrell International… Second in U.S. World Team Trials… Second in U.S. Open… Fifth in Pan American Championships…

2014: FILA Junior Greco World Team Trials champion… First in Bill Farrell International… FILA Junior Greco Nationals champion… 12th in Junior World Championships…

2013: FILA Junior Greco Nationals champion… FILA Junior Greco World Team Trials runner-up…

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