2026-27 La Verne Swimming and Diving Roster
Biography
Why La Verne?
- Chose La Verne for the small, accessible community allows for individualized attention. The people from the University of La Verne are polite, nice, and considerate.
At La Verne
- Studying Rhetoric & Communications
High School
- Saint Monica Academy
- 2026 CIF State P1 50/100 Freestyle Champion, CIF-SS Paralympic 50/100 Freestyle Champion 2025 CIF State Class 2 50 Freestyle, 5th place, CIF-SS Paralympic 50/100 Freestyle 2nd place 2024 CIF-SS Inclusive 50 Freestyle 4th place and 100 Freestyle 3rd place, 2023 CIF-SS mixed 50 Freestyle 3rd place
- Academic Decathlon gold medal winner in math.
Personal
- Played for Quantum Waves, formerly known as Swim Uphill
- Hopes to be a Para Olympian and a voice for disabled individuals.
- Has had to learn how to walk five times.
- Go to pump up song is "The Fighter" by Gym Class Heroes
- His sports role model is Rudy Garcia Tolson. He is a Para World Champion and Gold medal Para Olympian. He taught him to not be scared of being the only adaptive athlete in any sport. I model my swim career after him by using every meet as an opportunity to take one step forward towards my goal.
- Favorite quote is "You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them." St. Thérèse of Lisieux
