Age: 23
Years with Team: 1
Hometown: Granite City

Education: Illinois College
Major(s): Education

Occupation: Elementary School Teacher

Your career goals: To obtain my master’s and doctorate in education.

Hobbies: cooking, shopping, working out

Favorite childhood memory: Going to the Ozarks every summer with my mom, dad, aunt, uncle and cousins. 

Something interesting about you or your family others may not know:  My dad and my uncle were born on the same day, but two years apart.

Five things you would like to accomplish in this lifetime:

1. Touch children’s lives
2. Raise a family
3. Complete my Ph.D. in education
4. Travel to as many places as possible
5. Live everyday as if it were the last

One word to describe yourself: Passionate

What is the first thing you would do after winning the lottery? Share it with my parents for all they have done for me.

Interesting places you have visited: NASA Space Center, Las Vegas, Sanibel Island

What is in your CD player right now? Rhianna, Kenny Chesney, anything country

Something you feel very strongly about: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Marine biologist and an Olympic gymnast

If you could have any animal as a pet, what animal would you choose? I would love to have a huge aquarium with tropical fish and dolphins.

Your favorite subject:
Elementary School -  Science
High School - English
College – Education courses

One movie that you could watch over and over…… Dirty Dancing and Dumb and Dumber

Your favorite charity: “Save the Children”

Favorite childhood cartoon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Care Bears

As a role model, what do you hope children will learn from you? To treat everyone as an equal or the way I treat others.