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I grew up playing a variety of youth sports and eventually gravitated to basketball. While serving in the United States Marine Corps in San Diego, CA I participated as a member of the First Marine Division basketball team as a player and assistant coach, and was also introduced to the sport of triathlon. After completing my obligation with the Marines, I remained in San Diego to pursue triathlon full time while also earning an undergraduate degree in physical education at San Diego State University. I was fortunate enough to train and race in San Diego in the 1980’s and early 1990’s when triathlon was still in its infancy, and most of the learning was done by trial and error. When it became apparent that I didn’t possess the swim skills to be competitive as a full - time triathlete, I focused my efforts on becoming a collegiate basketball coach. 
 

I served as an assistant high school basketball coach in San Diego, a men’s basketball graduate assistant coach at Frostburg State University, a graduate assistant at The University of Southern Mississippi, and the women’s basketball head coach and associate professor of kinesiology at California Baptist University. Along the way, I earned a master’s degree in health and physical education, and a doctorate in human performance. 
 

Since 2001 I have been an associate professor of sport management at California University of Pennsylvania, where I developed an online graduate degree program and have served as program director for the past eleven years. In 2004 I began competing in Ironman events again after a thirteen-year absence from competition. In 2006 I began coaching triathletes on a part-time basis, and decided to pursue the Trisutto Coaching Certification in 2016 so that I might be qualified to teach what I believe to be the most successful training method in the sport of triathlon. I completed the on-deck supervised coaching experience with Coach Brett Sutton and the Trisutto coaching staff during camps at St. Moritz during the Summer of 2017. For 7 years I also served as a volunteer assistant with my two sons’ high school track and cross-country teams, assisting with middle distance, 400m hurdles, and pole vault.
 

I currently host a week-long annual Trisutto camp in Cozumel, Mexico in January, as well as mini camps in Hilton Head, SC, Lexington, SC, and Jacksonville, FL. The goal is to establish a series of mini camps throughout the Southeastern US.