SPORTS MEDICINE & PERFORMANCE
DC, ATC, LAT, CSCS
I’m a sports medicine professional with more than a decade of experience helping athletes recover, rebuild capacity, and return to performance. My background spans collegiate athletics across multiple sports, private sports-performance therapy, professional baseball, and hospital-based sports medicine.
At Athletic Reserve in Bee Cave, I bring those perspectives together through an individualized approach designed around the athlete in front of me.
I didn’t know athletic training existed when I was growing up. I was a three-sport high school athlete, but my school was small and didn’t have an athletic trainer. It wasn’t until Modesto Junior College that I was introduced to sports medicine and realized there was an entire profession devoted to supporting athletes.
That changed the direction of my career. I knew my own time as an athlete would eventually end, but sports medicine gave me a way to remain in athletics. I later transferred to the University of Louisiana- Lafayette, completed my degree in Athletic Training, and became a Board Certified Athletic Trainer.
Collegiate athletics taught me that good sports medicine depends on more than one person’s skill set. Working directly with athletes across a wide range of sports sharpened my evaluation and decision-making, but it also taught me how important communication is between athletic trainers, coaches, physicians, rehabilitation professionals, and strength staff.
My next chapter moved me closer to the intersection of rehabilitation and performance. I helped build a private sports-performance therapy practice from the ground up, working with athletes across competitive levels and gaining significant experience in professional baseball. That environment reinforced the importance of understanding not only the injury and rehabilitation process but also the physical demands of the sport the athlete is ultimately returning to.
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As my career developed, I wanted a broader clinical skill set while keeping the sports medicine and performance background that had shaped the way I worked. That led me to Parker University, whose sports-focused environment aligned naturally with my background in athletic training and strength and conditioning.
While completing my Doctor of Chiropractic degree, I continued working in hospital-based sports medicine and covering athletes across a broad range of competitive and collegiate sports. Staying involved in athletics while expanding my clinical education was important to me. I wanted those perspectives to develop together rather than treating clinical care and athletic performance as separate disciplines.
Over time, I kept seeing the same problem: athletes could receive excellent care at every individual stage and still get lost between them. The treatment room, rehabilitation setting, weight room, and performance environment are often different specialties with different priorities. An athlete can improve in one setting without having a clear answer for what should happen next.
My career has placed me across several parts of that process—athletic training, sports medicine, rehabilitation, chiropractic, strength and conditioning, and performance. Athletic Reserve grew from wanting to connect those perspectives into one clearer progression for the athlete. That does not mean replacing the other professionals involved in their care. It means understanding enough of the entire process to recognize what the athlete needs now, what comes next, and when collaboration with someone else is the right decision.
One thing I wanted as my career evolved was more time with the individual in front of me. Team-based sports medicine taught me how valuable the larger healthcare network can be, but it also showed me how difficult it is to give one athlete your full attention when you are responsible for an entire team.
Today, I prefer a one-on-one model. I want to understand where the athlete is starting, what they are working through, what physical qualities need to be developed, and what their sport ultimately demands. Sometimes that means care I can provide directly. Sometimes another professional belongs in the plan. My approach is built around adapting care and performance strategies to the individual athlete rather than relying on a predetermined system.
Parker University
San José State University
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Credentials: DC • ATC • LAT • CSCS
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