My passion for coaching first started in high school when I worked for the football team doing film, stats and whatever I could to be involved. I was always involved in sports and played sports but when I went to college I knew I needed to coach because I wasn't talented enough to play. I wanted to be in involved with the basketball team at Oswego State because of my passion for coaching and the game of basketball. During my undergrad at Oswego I worked as a student assistant for the mens basketball team at Oswego and became NYS certified at the high school level because of my coaching minor. Following my undergraduate experience at Oswego, I went to Cortland but was promoted to an assistant coach at Oswego. My first year as an assistant coach at Oswego, our staff led the team to the best record in school history, a SUNYAC conference championship and the NCAA Division 3 Sweet 16. I look forward to expanding my hroizons to other ages and sports.
Hoop Roots is a non profit AAU basketball program in Syracuse, New York. This was my first year coaching with Hoop Roots where I was able to coach the 15u team. Being the head coach i was in charge of running practices, travel arrangements, fundrasing efforts and games.
During my first year as an assistant coach at SUNY Oswego, our staff was awarded SUNYAC coaching staff of the year. This award was voted on by the 9 other coaches in the conference. During the 2021-2022 season we won 27 games, had the longest win streak in school history, won our conference and went to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
In 2019, our team won the conference championship. This was my second year as a manager and an experience that made me realize I wanted to get into teaching.