Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning my second state championship during my senior year
Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Getting admitted
Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science with a minor in finance
High School:
- Graduated from The Altamont School
- Two-time All-State and State All-Star
- US Lacrosse All-Academic
- No. 1 team in Alabama for 2023 and 2024 seasons
- Won two state championship with Vestavia High School
- Two-time team Offensive MVP and five-time varsity letterwinner
- Salutatorian
- Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society
- National Merit semifinalist
- AP Scholar with Honor
- National African American Recognition Award
- YouthServe Overall Impact Award - Winner of statewide, annual contest that recognizes the service contributions of youth demonstrating the ability to BUILD community, CONNECT together and LEAD positive change. I was awarded for my work to combat poverty directly through food drives and indirectly by educating peers on how to get involved in the fight against poverty.
- Princeton Prize in Race Relations - Certificate of Merit for work to end the causes of persistent poverty disproportionately affecting underserved racial populations.
- Community Champion Award - WVTM NBC Channel 13 - I received the Community Champion Award because of my work with the Recursion Program Young Leaders Board, which I co-founded with my younger sister in 2021. The award was based on leading my peers to serve meals at homeless shelters and provide sundries to warming stations, the work of educating peers on how to help tackle the causes of poverty during leadership workshops, and a speaker series I hosted all with the aim of being an accelerator of youth leadership in the helping ecosystem.
Link to interview.
- National African American Recognition Program Award (CollegeBoard)
- Presidential Volunteer Service Awards - two Bronze and one Gold
- McCombs Future Executive Academy Case Study Winner - After a week of research, I led my cohort in presenting a case-study competition between 6 teams at McCombs Business School. This competition consisted of analysis and comparison of the Corporate Social Responsibility sectors of Phillips 66 and Boeing. My cohort's project was judged by a panel of Phillips 66 executives. I was our lead team presenter.
- Co-founder and president of Recursion Program Young Leaders Board (501(c)(3) nonprofit)
- SGA Involvement (Student-elected leadership positions: 9th grade: Class Treasurer, 10th: School Treasurer, 11th: School Vice President, 12th: School President)
- Matrix Solution Systems (Carson, Nevada) intern and AppThink Inc. Business Accelerator Program Graduate
- Selective College Preparatory Summer Programs (College classes at McCombs Future Executive Academy, UChicago and Governor’s School. Won McCombs’ Phillips 66/Boeing case-study competition)
- UAB Sports Medicine Clinic and Lemak Sports Medicine intern
- Community Service Volunteer Organizations (Altamont Miree Center and Altamont Service Corps)
- Refereeing boy’s lacrosse games ages U10-U14 for the Greater Birmingham Youth Lacrosse Association
- Co-founder of a faith-based social media platform (The Family Standard Tiktok and Instagram)
Club:
- Team 91 Georgia
- Top 50-ranked team in country by US Club Lacrosse
