As a player, I was a late bloomer. I was a freshman in high school when I decided I wanted to play college soccer, so I began training on my own and taking my development seriously. 

Going into my senior year of high school, I had no college offers and felt overlooked by coaches. 

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At the last minute, I was given an opportunity to play on a local division 2 reserve team. While I was there, I built structure into everything I did: film study, weight lifting, and extra training sessions.

I quickly began to improve and was called up to the DII top team, where I made my NCAA debut. In the summertime, I was recruited to semi-pro soccer in USL League 2. After helping win a conference championship in my senior year, I entered the transfer portal. 

I received athletic scholarship offers from other teams in the conference before committing to another division 2 school in Indiana: Purdue Northwest. 

I went from being overlooked by coaches completely to starting games, earning a scholarship and playing at the semi-professional level. Now, I use everything I learned throughout my playing career and years of study to help overlooked high school defenders become the exact type of player college coaches want to recruit.