Do you value your successes or failures more? Why?

“I value my failures a whole lot more because it pushes me to do better and learn from my own mistakes so I can be better at what I do.”

If you could watch everything that happened in your life until now, would you enjoy it?

“I’d most certainly enjoy it. I feel like I’ve had a very good life.”

If karma was coming back to you, would it help or hurt you?

“You could go either way there. It would help me in certain situations and hurt me in other ones. But I really feel like it’d help me. I feel like I’ve been a good person.”

What do you want most out of life?

“To be successful. I’ve been working hard at everything I do, anything: school, athletics, all that. I just want it to pay off one day.”

What would happen if you never wasted another minute of your life, what would that look like?

“I already feel like I’m not wasting any time. Just enjoy it. It’d be, I guess if you could put it that way, even more enjoyable than what it is.”

When did you last push the boundaries of your comfort zone?

“I’d have to say probably moving to Darlington. Whole new environment. Going from being at Model everyday for my whole school career and just moving here to a private school. Really different.”

What have you given up on?

“My dream of being a rockstar. I don’t see that happening.”

Describe a time in your life where you felt pushed to your farthest physical, mental, and/or emotional boundary.

“I’d have to say more recently in wrestling, going through this training for this national qualifier that we did, I practiced up until the last week of it and practiced on the first day. But I had recently gotten a concussion a week before and kept pushing myself, not taking any breaks with the injury and it got to the point where I couldn’t even compete right or do anything. Coach had to sit me down and tell me I was at my limits and I needed to just take a break.”

What are you holding onto that you feel you need to let go of?

“Nothing that I can think of that’s really holding me back. I’m more of a look forward person, not look back.”

Describe an activity that you love. Now describe a quality that you believe you have acquired through that activity. Give a specific example.

“I’d have to say the activity that I love is wrestling and it has given me the quality of never giving up, always pushing forward to the end and then more.”