Like many before me, I started mucking stalls in exchange for lessons on various ponies at an early age. My appreciation and love for this sport became fairly obvious then and I began to nurture a hobby that would later prove to fill a much larger part of my life.

Throughout my junior-high and high school career I rode both hunters and jumpers for two schools I attended in California and in Maryland . Later I returned to Texas to ride as a junior with Phillip DeVita out of Dallas and later with Jim and Joan Waterman located in the Houston area.

After college I returned to riding and showing full time as an amateur again with Jim and Joan Waterman, and in 2000 I showed my mare Softly Spoken to a Texas Hunter and Jumper Association (THJA) 3^rd place year end award as well as a United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Zone 7 Reserve Champion award in the Adult Amateur division.

In 2001 I received the THJA and USEF Zone 7 Reserve Champion year end award in the Adult Amateur Hunter division once again on Softly Spoken.

In 2002 I received the THJA A/O Champion year end award and the USEF Zone 7 3^rd place finish on Harvest.

In 2004 I declared my professional status to work for top Texas trainers such as Jim and Joan Henson, Russell Frey, and Kevin and Julie Cleveland. During my tenure with those trainers I was at times employed as a manager, assistant trainer, and rider. A very well rounded education!

From 2005 forward I began judging horse shows for the GHHJA (Greater Houston Hunter Jumper Association), San Jac Hunter Jumper Association, and the CenTex Horse Show Association.

Since 2005 I have been riding, teaching, and training for several different barns in the Houston area and in 2007 I accepted a position as a member of the 2007 GHHJA Board of Directors which I held until this year.

I am currently the President of the GHHJA, manager, trainer and rider.