Born and raised in Delta BC, I come from a family who always let me try things. I was born with something called Achondroplasia Dwarfism, which is a gene mutation that basically means I don’t grow very much and I will be little for my whole life.

I played a lot of sports growing up but once all of my friends started getting taller, faster and moving onto higher levels, I was left behind. About the time I was hitting my peak frustration levels, I found swimming… or I guess I could say that swimming found me — call it God’s perfect timing. I joined a swim club in 2008 and eventually made my International debut for Team Canada in 2011. I swam on Canada’s Paralympic National Team for 13 years, winning medals and setting multiple Canadian Records. In 2021, I got to fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a Paralympian at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. My years representing Canada were some of the greatest, most frustrating, sometimes disappointing and yet absolutly amazing years of my life. I am grateful for everything I got to do, the places I was fortunate to see, the people I met and the journey that being a professional swimmer took me on. I retired in the summer of 2023 and began exploring what else I could do in the world. If we only get this one precious and unique life to live, then we might as well live it to the fullest, right?

I believe that we all have a light to shine into the world and it’s thanks to Jesus that we have this light to help make a difference by making the world a little brighter. Now you see, I can’t shine your light and you can’t shine mine, but when we choose to shine in the unique ways we were created… the world gets BRIGHTER.

What would happen if we all discovered our own unique light and chose to shine? That’s what I am passionate about. Equipping people to see the light they have inside of them and how to shine brightly in a world that needs to experience a little more light.