Shooting Background

I began my path into pistol shooting in 2015 at 20 years old as a means to become proficient with my carry gun. At my first competition, a local IDPA match, I did not do too hot. Dead last of 37 shooters to be exact. My final score for this 6-stage club match was 447.62 seconds, under the old half second scoring rule too. I dropped 230 points with a 332.62 second raw time. Despite falling on my face very hard, I was instantly hooked on competitive shooting. Falling on my face just motivated me more to improve. I very quickly learned that I did not know anything and had a lot to learn to become better.

What stood out the most to me was a lack of speed and an inability to be accurate. I discovered the purpose of sights and how they worked but was still very lacking in speed. Something I decide very early on after that first match is there should be no excuse for why I could not draw and reload just as fast as the pro shooters. So, I began dryfiring every day to improve my proficiency. I didn't know it was called dry firing until a few years later.

Fast forward to 2017, I had been traveling to and competing in a few sanctioned matches for a year and had improved from where I started. After I competed in the Florida State IDPA Championship, I was not pleased with my match performance in the slightest despite my best efforts to improve on my own. I decided it was time to seek out some help to get better. A few weeks after the match, I took my first training class with long time competitor, champion, LEO, and friend Matt Sims. I took a one-on-one class with Matt, a self-defense class. After a long day on the range, I was overwhelmed with new knowledge and eager to start training hard. The most memorable and impacting moment of this class was when Matt explained what makes a high-level shooter and a very deadly gunfighter. Equipment, skill, and will. Equipment can be bought. Skill can be learned. But the will, that is what drives us to get better and constantly strive for improvement. Someone lacking the will to get better and put the work in will never reach their full potential as a shooter.

From that day forward, my will to improve and chase down my goals hasn't stopped. I made Master class in IDPA in 2018 and B class in USPSA. I took more classes from Matt that year and in years to come. Those courses being an Advanced Competition Course, Gun Fighting Around Vehicles, Church Security, Shotgun Skills. I also got to help with some specialty pistol courses years later that Matt was teaching such as a lady's introduction to firearms class and a red dot class for local law enforcement instructors. At the end of 2018, I took a class from World and multiple time National Champion Elias Frangoulis. Elias's 2-day course gave me the skills, and more motivation, to reach Master in USPSA in addition to making Master in multiple divisions in IDPA.

As of the end of 2025, more and more of those goals have been attained and came to life. I am blessed to have numerous State, Area, Regional, National, and World titles.

Some Notable Finishes:

23rd overall in Classic at the 2025 IPSC Handgun World Shoot in South Africa
t8th overall in Single Stack 2025 USPSA Factory Gun Nationals
11th overall in Single Stack 2024 USPSA Handgun Nationals
12th overall in Single Stack 2024 USPSA Handgun Nationals
1st Master in CDP at the 2025, 2024, and 2021 IDPA Nationals.
2nd Master in CDP at the 2023 IDPA World Championship