Casper, Wyoming 

Everything happens for a reason. That’s been my siblings and I’s motto our entire lives and it has rung to me very much in recent years.

Being an angler has tied together many points of my life that I never really thought would. Being born in the middle of Wyoming in the small town of Casper, with some difficulties; my siblings and I were found in the foster system. After years of sticking together and emotions we never knew existed; each of us ended getting out of the system through finding our fathers or getting adopted.

I was lucky enough to have found my biological father and started fishing in Colorado. Fell in love with fly fishing after and have made it half of my personality since. I have obsessively been fly fishing and using it as a coping mechanism for years and years now and I couldn’t have asked for a better hobby.

Fly fishing has given me the very things I’ve always wanted in life, stability and confidence. Finally finding something I am comfortable teaching as well as finding the community (family) that comes with it is unbeatable and unmatched.

Throughout this journey I have found so many different mentors which add different strengths towards who I am today.

I found myself a couple years ago wanting a more simple life and wanting to live in a slower pace, so I found myself back in Wyoming in the very town I was in foster care in. As a result, I am greatful be the lead mentor for the first ever Wyoming project.

Now I am hoping with my connections to the foster community here and my background healing through this sport, I hope to give back to the community that did as much as they could for me and proved to me that truly everything happens for a reason