2024-25 Team USA ranking: No. 2 at 87 kg

Years on Team USA: 4 (2021-25)

Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo.

Club: U.S. Army WCAP

College: Maryland, Northern Michigan

High School: Kotzebue (Alaska)

Born: June 27, 1998

Past Senior World Teams

2023 Senior World Championships (18th at 82 kg), 2022 Senior World Championships (22nd at 82 kg)

Past Age-Group World Teams

2021 U23 World Championships (19th at 87 kg)

Career Highlights

2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up
2024 Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament champion
2023 Senior Pan American champion
2023 USMC U.S. Open champion
2023 Final X champion
2022 Final X Stillwater runner-up
2021 U23 World Team member
2021 Senior Nationals champion

Career Biography

2024: Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament champion… U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up…Seventh at Pan American Championships…27th at Zagreb Open Ranking Series…

2023: Final X champion…Senior Pan American champion…USMC U.S. Open champion…Fifth at Zagreb Open Ranking Series tournament…Fifth at Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial…

2022: Final X Stillwater runner-up…USMC U.S. Open runner-up…Bill Farrell Memorial International runner-up…Twenty-second at Senior World Championships…Seventh at Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series tournament…

2021: U23 World Team member… Third at 2020 Olympic Team Trials… UWW Senior Nationals Champion… U23 Nationals Champion… 19th at U23 World Championships…

2019: Second at U.S. Open… Fourth at Dave Schultz Memorial International… Third at U23 Nationals… Second at Bill Farrell Memorial International…

2018: Fifth at UWW Junior Nationals… Fourth at U23 Nationals… Third at Junior World Team Trials…

2017: Seventh at UWW Junior Nationals… Seventh at UWW University Nationals.

College: Attended University of Maryland before wrestling at Northern Michigan University… Now a member of the Army WCAP program…

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