Kicking and Coding

I got an offer from Coach Riddle and Coach Harsin back in 2016, which is a huge blessing. It was a great family environment. We loved the staff, the whole vibe. The culture here was amazing. I just committed as soon as they offered, and it was the best decision ever.

I’m here for another year, thanks to Covid. It’s more about the environment we have and the opportunity to keep learning. This is a place that pushes me. I’ve seen growth over the years, and being part of the brotherhood, we’re all just motivating ourselves to get better. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so I figured I’d stay another year and just keep absorbing all that.

The focus is a big thing. Especially when you’re the punter, you need to be locked in. It’s the same thing with school. You need to be razor sharp and on top of it, especially in engineering. Tests are an important part of your grade.

In high school, I had a really good honors physics teacher. She was an engineer who worked in the semiconductor industry. I really enjoyed that class. I’m a pretty big fan of cars and vehicles, and that’s what I was leaning towards. Engineering was a good place to go that route.

It’s part of the graduate Cyber Operations and Resilience program. It’s new. I’m in the very first class, which is awesome. I figure with my mechanical engineering degree, everything’s headed towards cyberspace. Everything’s going cloud-based, pretty much, and I figured it’d just be good for me to get that on my resume and go with the future.

One of my mentors, Leo Kilfoy, he has some friends that are in the cyber space. There are a bunch of unfilled jobs in cybersecurity, and I’m also interested in tech companies here in the valley I’d be interested in working for.