My Story

I didn’t understand God’s plan for me in that moment.

All I wanted was to make it to regionals, to be able to go compete one last time with my teammates, with my best friends.

My name is called, I step onto the runway and start the “jumpers clap” the clap the other throwers hated but I loved, the clap that would give me the energy and confidence and adrenaline rush to throw this javelin 150 ft. and qualify for regionals.

I start my approach, open up into my crossovers, reach full speed and took my last step.

💥 the javelin lands one foot in front of me and I’m on the ground. I can’t feel my right leg. In that moment, I knew my college career had ended. I didn’t understand God’s plan for me in that moment.

I couldn’t see it at the time but God’s plan was bigger than me. It was bigger than my athletic career! God’s plan brought me home to be with my family and grandfather as he died. To be with one of my biggest supporters, the man that carried me on his shoulders as a child, the man that went to my sporting events and cheered for me, the man that played a duet on the piano with me, the man that loved me and cared so much about me, the man that raised a strong CATHOLIC family of 13 children, the man that showed us what it meant to be catholic.

God’s plan was for me to be there during the last week that he could talk, to pick him up and help him get around. God’s plan was for me to be home when he passed away (it was the same day as regionals 🤯)

God’s plan was bigger than myself. His plan for you may not make sense now, but it will and it’s bigger than you!