Throughout high school I didn't really take it seriously. I played hockey and lacrosse and I would do just enough to get by. Then in my senior year of high school, I was diagnosed with mediastinal germ cell tumor, which is a form of testicular cancer, but located in my chest. Which makes the cancer more rare than the rest and automatically your put into stage 4 and your chances of survival are 60/40. I realized that if I made it through this all, I would need to recover and make me the best that I could possibly be. I survived and had surgery roughly 4 months later and wasn't able to start working out again till January 2013. Ever since then I've been taking it easy and not really going full throttle. As of June 2013 I've started a goal that by April 2014 I want to be a brand new me and continue to keep going hard everyday at trying to be the best that I can be.

I find it my days are much more happy and energized when I workout before the day starts. Everyone told me that I could never be strong like them, but I found a new way to become strong by having a positive attitude towards everything even if there's negativity around the environment. I'm twice the strength I was 2 years ago.