I began playing sport at 2. I am both independent and determined to learn and problem solve for myself (since I was homeschooled and self taught) but I am also a team player since I was a football athlete at U-9, U10, and U-15 and was scouted by Watford F.C. and Q.P.R. F.C. at the age of 10 years old and this experience as a child athlete enabled me to also have the ability to grow chemistry and camaraderie with others as part of a team. 

I left school at 13 to focus on becoming a professional Tennis Athlete travelling across the UK to train at various academies and to Barcelona. Since that time I have taught myself GCSEs and A Levels, I am qualified as a certified strength and conditioning coach with the NSCA and I have two Sports Science degrees, including a qualification in Talent Identification (BSc Level 5); the biopsychosocial model crystalised the ‘Nature’ side of the equation for me.

In short, I was identified as an emerging talent, I am now athlete AND coach AND sport scientist. I know the how the biomechanics feel, therefore I know how they should look on the field; I know how the psychological highs and lows of a match feel, therefore I know how to read them in a young player’s body language; and I know what having a bad day feels like, so I know how to nurture and support a player’s emotional well-being.

In addition, thanks to my analytical nature and life-long love of football, I can see players thinking and responding to the flow of a match: the cognitive visual awareness and coordination, the advanced motor control, the non-dominant side capability, the speed of environmental analysis, the positional awareness and the consequent decision-making; the makings of great players.

As a 13 year old (when I started pursuing a career in tennis) the ongoing journey to understand how to effectively play my sport from a physiological, biomechanical, emotional and psychological perspective, and bring all those aspects together, helped me to realize the level of dedication, discipline and work ethic required to succeed. This gave me a far greater appreciation of the lengths to which other athletes go, to achieve success and reach lifetime sporting goals. It was this interest, passion, and love for sport and the life lessons it teaches that led me to study sport sciences and help me realize that I have skills and potential still to tap into and hone, and that I always have room to develop as an athlete, as an intellectual, and as a man. Accountability, determination, discipline, and work ethic have always been the attributes that I live my life by, and they have always pushed me further as my entire life has been embedded in the sporting environment which helps a young boy understand the concepts of teamwork, sacrifice, and humility to achieve the trophy, championship, record, or goal.