Height: 5'5"
Weight: 155#'s
Age: 1986
Fav Lift: Clean and Jerk
Fav Wod: Elizabeth
Some Current PR's:
Elizabeth: 5:53
Amanda: 6:08
Cindy: 30 rounds + 2 pull-ups
Badger: 21:09
PR Lifts: (I rarely do 1RM's)
BackSquat: 315#
Bench: 235#
Deadlift: 405#
Clean and Jerk: 245#
Snatch: 175#
About Me
I am a Co-Owner/Co-Operator/Co-Head Coach of CrossFit Oshawa. My life is dedicated to CrossFit not just in owning a CrossFit Club and coaching there, but as an athlete aswell. I have been an athlete my whole life and here is a little bit of history:
I started off playing hockey like every Canadian kid. I loved it. However, It wasn't enough for me, I loved to learn and play new things, so every summer my parents would put me in different sports. One summer: soccer, the next: baseball.... ect. Until I played my first summer of Box Lacrosse! I was hooked on these two sports: Hockey and Lacrosse. However, still in love with the two sports, I wasn't fullfilled, I started doing Triathlons (one summer i did both triathlons and played lacrosse) but I ended up switching to Triathlons and did pretty well in them. When I was 16 I made a decision to put all my focus into training for Jr. Nationals and I quit hockey. I Trained very hard with some of the best Triathletes in the world and best coaches in the world, I spent many summer's away from home and friends, I sacrificed a lot of prime years of my social life. But I loved it. Until I hit a wall in my races and training, I think I always new deep down that I wasn't made for triathlons. Most triathletes are long and lanky, I was short and not lanky at all, But I wanted to prove myself wrong, I love defying the odds. So after my best placing at Jr.Nationals being 18th and many years of this hardcore Training, I decided it wasn't for me and got out of Triathlons. I then had my last victory lap year of highschool and played field lacrosse for Courtice Secondary. After I went off to school I had a year where i didnt do a thing, I drank and made up for the social life I never had in highschool and got kinda fat (131#'s to 160#'s in 8months). I reflected after this year and said never again, I started at the gym and went for runs all summer. Lucky for me, when I went back for my second year Laurentian University was starting a field lacrosse team and this was their expansion year (a test year to see if we could be in the CUFLA- Canadian University Field Lacrosse Assoc.) I ended up being a Captain for the Laurentian Voyageurs Field Lacrosse team for 4 years and having a large impact on the start up of that team. I was back to my roots playing lacrosse and having fun at the same time, but if history teaches anything... this wasn't enough. One of my best friends Cam Cassidy (co-owner of CrossFit Oshawa) also played on the team with me for a couple years and He told me about CrossFit one summer. After going back to school and having a great season with LU I decided to try CrossFit. I have never looked back since, it was unreal, and it was that thing I was looking for my entire life, In all the years since then I have never had that feeling of needing more like I did my entire life, I was made for this. Around the same time I was getting familiar with CrossFit, my lacrosse coach George Sheppard was a weightlifting coach and spent many hours in the gym with me showing me the ropes of Olympic Weightlifting, This quickly became my favorite part of CrossFit. Fast forward 3 and a half years and I am sitting here writing my bio for this blog a week after competing in the Canada East Regional, already geared up for next year...
I feel very awry displaying a blog for people to see, nonetheless I wanted to create something that captures my journey to the CrossFit Games. Obviously this is my ultimate goal and this is the venue showcasing the road, however long it may be.
