Our Story

The Pack was formed from years of owning CrossFit Affiliates in California since 2013, Coaching regional, sanctional, and CrossFit Games athletes alongside everyday people looking to look, feel, and perform better in their daily lives. During COVID19 we moved to Rochester New York where we coach on-site and online out of our affiliate CrossFit Currahee. whatever your fitness goal is we are here to help you with your journey. At the PACK we focus on progression and development. To make lasting adaptations or learn a new skill you can’t do a single gymnastics session, long run, or heavy lifting day and nail it. That is why we spend time on skills, strength, and endurance pieces to build you up slowly; allowing for harder skills, volume, and intensity to be layered on appropriately.

Vision & Mission

Over the years we have come to realize how complex getting into shape actually is. Beyond the science of how to become faster, stronger, and be more enduring we know how sleep, hydration, nutrition, stress, mindset, and relationships affect our desired outcomes, to lose some weight or compete at the CrossFit Games. We take an athlete-centric approach to solve this problem for each individual. Our goal is to teach you the why behind our method of training. Build personal progressions in strength, endurance, and bodyweight movements to reach your physical goals while creating space to fix stressors in your life, build better nutrition and sleep habits, all the while creating a great athlete-coach relationship. 

We have always said “anyone can go to the CrossFit games” this is a metaphor that everyone is special and capable of the greatest physical, mental, and emotional expression and we believe we can help you get to that expression whatever it is for you

1-ON-1 COACH • BRUTE STRENGTH TRAINING • SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2017 – JULY 1ST, 2020

My coaching load consisted of 30+ 1-on-1 athletes remotely, and coached multiple regional/sactional athletes & teams under Brute. Along side 5 other 1:1 coaches I worked on a team under Nick Fowler. Additionally received mentorship from Adrian Conway, Matt Bruce, Nick Sorrel, and Chris Hinshaw (during his time with brute) and helped coach at multiple seminars and athlete games prep camps. I was fortunate to coach masters, teens, and 3 national champions at the 2019 games under Brute Strength.

AFFILIATE OWNER • SUNDOWN CROSSFIT • JANUARY 1ST, 2013 – AUGUST 1ST, 2016

This was the first affiliate I opened with a business partner. My primary roles where operations & program design, like all affiliate owners coaching classes almost every day, built this community to 250+ members in Santa Clara, CA. I coached multiple Individual athletes to regionals & super regionals from this gym during time of ownership. Also a team member on the 2014 affiliate team and competed in the NorCal regionals on Sundown CF. This affiliate is still open and doing well.

AFFILIATE OWNER • CROSSFIT CURRAHEE • DECEMBER 1ST, 2016 – AUGUST 1ST, 2020

The second affiliate I opened; the goal was to see if I could do what I did once again without the help of a business partner. This affiliate also grew to 200+ members in a space half the size as the original gym and with more responsibilities as I was alone this time. The last two years of regionals, 2017 & 2018, we were just shy by a few heartbreaking spots to send an affiliate team to super regionals. While owning this gym I worked with Brute and sent multiple teams off to compete at Wodapalooza, Granite Games, & Lowlands Sanctionals, along with 2 individual athletes who competed at Strength in Depth in January of 2020. I sold this affiliate to one of the coaches and have helped them during COVID with online classes, home programing, and coaching. It’s great to see they’re doing well and I look forward to helping them continue to grow where I can, as I continue to coach remotely.

Certifications and Accolades

CROSSFIT LEVEL 2 • FEBRUARY 2014 & FEBRUARY 2019
OPEX CCP & OPEX MIXED MODAL
Opex immersion onsite with James Fitzgarled
Completed 6-month Mentorship with Max El-Hag of Training Think Tank 
USAW Level 1
California Strength Weightlifting – Dave Spitz
Dian FU weightlifting Seminar – Dian Fu
Attitude Nation weightlifting Seminar – Jon North Active Life RX course – Sean Pastuch
Free Style Seminar – Carol Paoli
Working Against Gravity Nutrition & Affiliate Program

A non-CrossFit coaching highlight was coaching High School Women’s Varsity Lacrosse at Pioneer High School 2018 & 2019 with the 2019 season ending 12-0. Through this, I found that youth athletics is very rewarding.

6 Years Nutrition Coaching Experience
Working Against Gravity Certified Coach
CrossFit Level 2 Trainer
8 Years’ CrossFit Coaching Experience
2 Years’ Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaching
Competitive CrossFit Athlete (2019, 2020 Sanctionals Team)
B.S. Human Wellness Management

I have traveled a long road with nutrition personally from battling an eating disorder in high school and college to collegiate sports nutritionist and everything in between. After college I realized how intrigued I was about nutrition and despite my rich history with it, I really didn’t know all that much about it. I immersed myself in the field of nutrition and coaching and the rest as they say, is history.

I understand how complicated nutrition and health can feel at times and know how rewarding navigating that journey can be. One thread that has been common throughout my experience coaching in both nutrition and CrossFit is that my purpose is to empower people, it is something I carry into my work every day. Nothing lights me up more than seeing my clients take strides towards their goals.