I started powerlifting in my early 20s. Not because someone handed me a program or pointed me toward a coach — but because I found the bar and something clicked that hasn’t stopped clicking since.

Thirty years later I’m still here. Still competing in the IPA and APF. Still showing up on meet day. Over twenty meets in, still learning something every time I step on the platform.

That’s not a story about natural talent or perfect genetics. That’s a story about figuring it out over three decades — what works, what breaks you, what keeps you going when everything in your life is telling you to back down.