Info the short list:
* placed second at 2004 u.s. olympic trials
* 2003 pan american games champion
* u.s. national team member since 2000
* former three-time u.s. junior national champion
did you know?
* currently an economics student at george washington university (va.) and works as a freelance photographer and web designer
* to help pay for training, he sold his digital camera for $3, only to learn that the buyer wrote him a counterfeit cashier's check
* was an avid skier as a youth, before being introduced to kayaking at age nine
* attended premier ski academy green mountain valley h.s. in waitsfield, vt., (class of 2000)
* trained for a month in slovenia his senior year in high school and witnessed first-hand the hostilities of the region
* placed fourth at 2000 olympic trials at young age of 17, right before his high school graduation
* favorite type of training is doing hard workouts, while lease favorite is long, easy, mindless endurance workouts
* enjoys bicycling and alpine ski racing
* enjoys a variety of music, such as top 40, tim mcgraw, u2, guns & roses: “every mood and situation calls for different music.”