Built By Someone
Who Gets It.

I grew up loving how the body works before I ever knew that could be a job. My mom has been a nurse my whole life, and between her stories and the books she'd bring home for us as kids, I was hooked early. I always knew I wanted to spend my life helping people — I just didn't know yet what that would look like.

I knew early on it wouldn't look like nursing. I watched my mom give everything to that profession for years, and I watched how often it gave back exhaustion instead. That broke my heart more than once, and I knew I didn't want that for myself.

So I aimed at medical school instead. I had the application filled out and ready to go. I spent that time shadowing as many disciplines as I could, and the only one that genuinely pulled at me was surgery — but a few softball injuries and a clear-eyed look at the lifestyle told me that wasn't it either. I wanted to live somewhere rural, somewhere with open space and room to breathe, and a surgeon in a small town is tied to the hospital around the clock. Every other specialty I shadowed seemed to run on the same model: take this for 30 to 60 days, come back if it's not better. That never sat right with me.

What did sit right with me was a memory — my own chiropractor, who kept my headaches at bay and my arm working long enough to play college softball. I started shadowing chiropractors instead, and the difference hit me immediately.

At about midnight on a Thursday night, I pulled my medical school application and submitted one for chiropractic school instead. I got accepted a week later.

Chiropractic school was its own grind, but something was still missing. The one moment my eyes consistently lit up was when an athlete walked into the clinic. I'd find weaknesses everywhere — in their training, their rehab, their warm-up and cool-down, nearly every corner of how they were being prepared for their sport. Not because anyone was failing them on purpose.

The coaches and the weights teachers in small towns are almost always doing their absolute best with what they have — they simply don't always have access to current, specialized knowledge. That gap is real, and it's not the coaches' fault. It's a resource problem.

So I went back to school. I earned a master's degree in sports science and rehabilitation, sat for the certifying exam, and became a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician — with one goal in mind.

I've spent almost five years now treating patients in a rural area, and two things have stuck with me the whole time.

The people working the hardest with their bodies are often the ones with the least access to the resources that would help them the most.

Rural Sports Doc exists to close both of those gaps. For the hardworking, determined people who rely on what their body can do — whether that's making a living or chasing a dream.