1. Something I couldn’t go a day without …
“I journal. I can’t go a day without writing what’s in my head or else I’ll go crazy. Gotta get it out! One of my classmates in college talked about how if you journal every day and you write about the good things that happen in your day, there’s some study, it makes the days feel like, one, like you made the most out of them. And two, it just makes you – I think from doing it myself – it’s made me just have that mentality of what am I looking forward to doing the next day and what are the takeaways? So, it’s definitely helped me be more introspective a little bit and I think that’s been good just for my mental health and going forward.”
2. My daily ritual is …
“I make a three-egg omelet every day.”
3. Something on my bucket list is …
“I’m going to go to the moon. I hope space travel is a possibility some time in our lifetime.”
4. The best piece of life advice I have received is …
“I roomed with Steve Clark on the Timbers. He’s a really intense guy. We lived together for a month in Costa Rica during preseason. And, he has a bunch of tattoos, and one of his tattoos on his wrist just says that he’s already dead, it says ‘I’m already dead.’ I think the point of that is just you live your life without fear. You chase new opportunities and you’re open to failing and getting rejected just because you know that’s going to grow you a little bit. I think that helped his playing career and it helped me as well. So, that was something cool I learned from him. It sounds kind of scary.”
5. My favorite family tradition is …
“My siblings and my mom and me will go to a specific part of the Oregon coast where we poured my dad’s ashes into the ocean. So that’s kind of cool. We’ll do that normally one day in the summer.”
6. The significance behind my number is …
“I was 28 on the Timbers and I got cut when I was number 28, so I was thinking, I’ll go number 27 because maybe it’s a little better. Maybe I’ll get promoted. Who knows!”
7. My biggest fear is …
“I think my biggest fear is regret. I think that plays somewhat into the thought of, I was considering retiring, and I know once I did that, there was no going back, the door had been shut. So, I’d say a little bit about my biggest fear is I would regret not fulfilling my potential.”
8. I’m proud of myself because …
“I was proud to get to start on the Stanford men’s team. I went on the team as a walk-on. So I think I accomplished more than I thought I was going to so that was cool for me.”
9. My go-to podcasts I listen to when I’m driving is …
“Pardon My Take and The Daily.”
10. My biggest hero(s) are …
“My hero is my mom. I think she beat her demons and was able to push her kids to fulfill their potential.”
