I’m a board-certified sports physical therapist, a strength coach, and a sport scientist with an MPhil in biomechanics. My training took me from Louisiana Tech to St. Augustine, Ohio State, Louisville, Houston, and Auckland, and my work has run through Air Force Special Warfare, Army special operations, the Space Force, cruise ships, and university classrooms.
Along the way I’ve covered rugby, weightlifting, CrossFit, military training, and circus performers. What ties it together is building the systems that let people perform: the testing, the staff, the workflows, and the decisions.
Credentials
Education and training
- MPhil, Rehabilitation Science (Biomechanics), Auckland University of Technology
- Sports Traveling Fellowship, AASPT, 2014
- Sports Performance Fellowship, University of Louisville Athletics, 2014
- Sports Physical Therapy Residency, The Ohio State University, 2013
- DPT with honors, University of St. Augustine, 2012
- BS Kinesiology, cum laude, Louisiana Tech, 2010
- Hybrid Learning Certification, Evidence In Motion, in progress
Certifications
- Board-Certified Sports Clinical Specialist (SCS)
- Certified Performance and Sport Scientist (CPSS)
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
- USA Weightlifting Level II Coach
- Emergency Medical Responder, CPR/BLS
- Exxat certified
Licensed in
Florida and Colorado. Previously Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, and New Zealand.
Service and leadership
- Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow, 2026
- AASPT Program Committee, 2026 to now
- Co-founder, Traverse City Tendon Summit, 2026 to now
- Peer reviewer, IJSPT and Sports Health, 2020 to now
- APTA CSM abstract selection committee, 2020 to now
- Sports Health editorial board and social media chair, 2020 to 2024
- AASPT Sports Performance SIG, practice co-chair and research chair, 2019 to 2021
- Director of Research, EIM / Kinetacore, 2017 to 2020
- Medical volunteer, STAND Haiti, 2017
Memberships
APTA (Sports Section, Hip SIG, Sports Performance SIG), NSCA, and USA Weightlifting.
Procedural certifications and continuing education
Dry needling Level III including ultrasound-guided (Kinetacore), Paris manual therapy Level IV, blood flow restriction (Owens), focused shockwave, IASTM, Immediate Care in Rugby, Battlefield Acupuncture, LightForce laser.
- 2025: Management of Running Injuries (Rich Willy); Elite Basketball and Football Conference; Sanford Sports Medicine
- 2023: Comprehensive Management of Sport-Related Concussion
- 2022: Walter Reed; AMSC; Body Tempering; Jill Cook Lectureship Series
- 2021: Military Embedded PT Symposium; Sprint Mechanics (Lee Taft); Management of the Fitness Athlete (ICE); Critical Thinking for the Clinician (Erik Meira)
- 2020: SPRINZ Writing Retreat; La Trobe tendon site visit with Jill Cook, Ebonie Rio, and Peter Malliaras
- 2018 to 2019: Pain Neuroscience (Adriaan Louw); Hip and Knee Course (Erik Meira); surgical skills labs
- 2012 to 2017: dry needling Levels I to III; USAW Levels I and II; blood flow restriction; Evaluation and Treatment of the Shoulder (Todd Ellenbecker); cadaveric anatomy; Paris manual therapy series