Wrestling changed the direction of my life before I knew where it would lead.
I started wrestling in high school. Public coverage from the Bay Area describes that first season as a major turning point: weight came down, confidence grew, and wrestling became a structure for discipline rather than just a sport.
The first national marker on the current site is Cadet Greco Nationals in 2008, where Trackwrestling lists a fifth-place finish. It is one timestamp in a longer path: the moment wrestling became serious enough to shape school, training, travel, and later coaching.
Ohio State, Northern Michigan, San Francisco State, and UCSF each trained a different part of me.
Ohio State was an early college wrestling chapter. Northern Michigan became a place where school and Greco-Roman training had to fit inside the same day. Public profiles from that period describe the ordinary mix behind the visible results: training, class, research exposure, work, and recovery.
San Francisco State brought me back to the Bay Area for graduate study, coaching, and continued training. UCSF is the current research home, where the science has become more specialized and the day-to-day work is quieter: read, design, test, fail, revise, and repeat.
I’m interested in the parts of biology that are easy to miss until the right tool makes them visible.
At UCSF, I am a PhD candidate in the Nadav Ahituv Lab. The current public lab profile frames my research around developing tools to illuminate hidden genomic features and uncover mechanisms that can improve human health.
In plain language, I am drawn to functional genomics and gene-editing technology because they ask a practical question: can we build better ways to measure what matters, and then use that information responsibly to improve biology and medicine?
Coaching keeps the story from becoming only about me.
Coaching matters because experience is only useful if it can be translated into something another person can use. The same is true for The Mat Association. The nonprofit work is about access, academic support, standards, and community around combat sports.
I want the site to make that clear without overselling it: the work is still built through people, rooms, practice, events, small systems, and follow-through.
The present chapter combines PhD work, training, coaching, nonprofit work, and the long road toward 2028.
The current chapter has to be clear to different people: employers, collaborators, nonprofit partners, sponsors, athletes, and friends. I want the public story to feel warm, specific, and useful — not inflated.