My Bio

Birthdate & Place

 I was born on November 19, 1996 at Mercy Hospital in San Diego.

Family Members

 I have two brothers, no sisters.  My older brother’s name is Jason and is 19 years old. My younger brother’s name is Peter and he is 12 years old. My mom’s name is Martha and she is white from Downsville, New York and my dad’s name is Jose and he is Mexican from Palm Springs.  They met through the triathlon called Ironman.

Childhood & School Life

 I’ve been home schooled for a majority of my life.  When I was little, my older brother, my dad and I would go camping and visit Mexico a lot.  We would go to skate parks and BMX parks and that’s how we spent a lot of our time when we weren’t doing schoolwork.

Hobbies, Interests, & Activities

 One of the activities that consumes a lot of my time is swimming.  I’m a very competitive swimmer and throughout the week I swim about 24 hours.  I have been swimming since I was eight years old.  Swimming has impacted my life a lot.  I have been working on it hard enough to the point where some D1 schools have offered me scholarships to swim for their schools.  I currently have six team records for West Hills High School and I am on track for more. A few weeks ago there was a meet for high school that was called the Ben Hedberg Invitational. This meet had 20 different schools competing in it. I swam two events at this meet, the 100backstroke and the 200IM. Not only did I win both of my events, but I also set meet records in each of them. The following week I was in the newspaper as “Athlete of the Week” for the Union Tribune.

Career

 I plan on going to the University of Hawaii.  I enjoy a few things…my dad is an engineer from SDSU and I also plan on pursuing my future of becoming an engineer or at least something math related.  University of Hawaii has an engineering school, so after two years I will apply to that program unless I decide to change my major.

What I Want To Be Known For

 I want to be one of those kinds of people where you only meet two or three of those kinds of people in your entire life.  I want to be different from everyone else.  Also, people at my high school who have seen me swim know me as “that fast swimmer” because I haven’t lost to anyone yet and our season is almost over, too.

Anecdotes

 I have been swimming since I was eight years old.  Over those years I have worked relatively hard to improve my speed.  Up until the end of last summer, I wasn’t training nearly as hard as I have been.  At the start of senior year my coach and I had a talk about my goals and aspirations.  Talking about these goals questioned me on how much work I needed to achieve these goals.  Since that talk I have worked harder at practice each day than I ever have been in my entire life.  Once I noticed an improvement in my swimming I started to regret not training that hard the previous years.  After a few months of this type of training I started to improve my times at meets.  I didn’t get the times that I was shooting for but any improvement in time is a good time for a swimmer.  After missing my goal I just went back to training and continued to push my swimming past my comfort zone.  Hours and hours each and every day was what it took to achieve my goal and a few months after missing my goal it only motivated me to train harder.  Once my next huge meet came along I tried to do everything the best I could, such as eating the right food, getting the right amount of sleep, and hanging around the right people.  After all the hard work I put in, I got the outcome I was hoping for.  Not only did I get my goal time, but I went a lot faster than my goal time, surpassing it.