Primarily played junior varsity and served as a practice player for Fargo North's 2002 State Championship basketball team. Unfortunately, ACL injuries sustained during football in both his junior and senior years prevented him from playing basketball during the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
After graduating from Fargo North High School in 2004, he attended Carleton College, where he majored in psychology and was a four-year starting center fielder on the baseball team. He earned First Team All-MIAC honors in 2007 and was named Carleton's Most Outstanding Baseball Player in 2008.
Following graduation in 2008, he worked as a psychometrist in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area for approximately seven years before moving to Portland, Oregon, to pursue graduate training in clinical psychology. He earned his Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree from Pacific University School of Graduate Psychology in 2025. After additional clinical training in Chicago, he returned to Minnesota and now lives in Minneapolis, where he is completing a fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. In 2025, he was also inducted into the Fargo Post 2 American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame.
