WHERE IT ALL STARTED
I first started riding at 3 1/2 years old when my parents bought me a TTR50 with training wheels for Christmas, but my love for motorcycles started way before that. I have been going to the track in Loudon, NH with my dad since I was 2 months old.
In 2016, my dad and grandpa took me to my first MotoGp race in Austin, Texas. That is where I saw kids riding on asphalt for the first time, and I had to try it. When we returned home, I asked my dad to change my tires. In September of 2016, I got to ride on the asphalt for the first time at the kart track, OVRP in N.Y. I crashed 4 times during practice, but got back up and kept riding- I was determined to compete in my first race the next day.
OFF TO THE RACES
That was it, I was hooked! But then I found out it was the last race of the 2016 season. So I waited until the 2017 season started and my dad signed me up for some races in NY and with NJ MiniGP. It didn't take long for New Jersey to become my home track and my race family... other than the 7 hour drive each way...
Over the next two years I had coaching sessions with accomplished racers, like P.J Jacobsen, Josh Herrin, and Ashton Yates as well as with racers in or starting with MotoAmerica, like Ben Gloddy, Gus Rodio, Joseph LiMandri Jr., Spencer Humphreys, and Brandon Paasch.
We traveled and trained from Maine to Miami.
2020 - AN UNFORGETTABLE SEASON
2020 was a crazy year. I competed in 4 classes: spec 50, spec110, 110 Pro and Ohvale 110 with 2 organizations: NJ MIniGp and DMV MiniGp... and I ended the year with 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS!!
It was also the year that I participated in my first MotoAmerica Mini Cup Series, racing in 2 of the 3 rounds in the Ohvale 110 class.
After the 2020 season ended, I bumped up to adult classes with NJ MiniGp, making me eligible to race in the stock 125 , F1, and Gplite (Ohvale 190) classes- which I currently race in.
MOTOAMERICA MINICUP- GOING OUT WITH A BANG
In 2021, Ducati New York, sponsored a minicup team, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of it. For 2022 and 2023, my coach, P.J Jacobsen (Jacobsen Motorcycle Training Est) sponsored my Mini cup efforts. I earned my first podium in the last round of 2022.
2023 brought on new changes for the series when they added a stock 125 class. I raced 8 races each MA weekend. 4 Stock 125, 4 Ohvale 190.
I finished the 2023 season UNDEFEATED (24 wins) in the stock 125 class, and 3rd in the Ohvale190 championship, which earned me a trip to the FIM World Series in Valencia, Spain to represent the USA.
BIGGER BIKES MEAN BIGGER TRACKS
At 11years old, my dad got me a Ninja 300, and in November of 2021, I was able to be part of an amazing bridge program, which allowed me onto the Thunderbolt track at New Jersey Motorsport Park, but what I was really waiting for was to be able to race at my dads home track in Loudon, N.H.
I trained on the 300 whenever I could, traveling to FL to train with my coach, P.J. Jacobsen in the off-season.
In 2023, I was accepted to the Penquin Road Racing School and now also work with coach and mentor, Eric Wood and was finally elgible to race "at my dad's track" with NEMRR in Loudon!
I competed in 6 classes, 3 on my NSF250r and 3 on my Ninja 400. I was bumped from novice to amatuer by round 2, making steady improvements on both bikes. By round 4, I was bumped to expert, taking more than 10 seconds off my times from round 1 to the end of the season.
I finshed 3rd in the Championship in the Expert GT 500 class, and won the 2023 Vanson Rookie of the Year award.