I've, I've already introduced you, but tell us sort of the, the highlight 30,000-foot level of how you got to where you are working with these high-level athletes and who you're even working with.

Yeah, for sure.

So, uh, I, I always joke that, uh, I was a fantastically mediocre athlete myself.

Um, so I think as is often the case with, you know, athletes who are getting to the end of their competitive career, you know, they wanna stay involved in sports in some capacity.

And for me, strength and conditioning was a world that I fell in love with, in part 'cause I had some health issues myself when I was 18 and, and also dealt with, you know, some shoulder issues from my, my tennis career.

Um, went to the University of Connecticut, uh, for grad school, um, after I'd done my undergraduate at the University of, uh, New England, and really knew I wanted to be in this health and human performance space.

But I didn't know whether I wanted to be in the research world, whether I wanted to be an exercise physiologist in the clinical realm, and I fell in love with strength and conditioning while I was there.

That sounds good [chuckles]