Age: 33
Raised in: Wilmington, DE.
Home: Virginia Beach, VA.

In 1975 I was introduced to skating by my cousin Steve at a family reunion. After learning 360's & Tick Tacks I was hooked! Late the next year, I got my first board, a Logan Earthski with Sims snakes & learned how to ride with my neighbors on a flat wood bank ramp in Wilmington DE. By late 1976 I started to go to the closest skate park in Dover, about 45 mins from my house. My pop drove me down on the weekends and dropped me off while he went to play golf. In 1977 a local skate park opened in Wilmington called Easy Rider Skatepark & it was huge. It included a 12ft halfpipe w/8ft transitions & 4ft of vert, a 8ft tall snake run, & also had a peanut shaped bowl, where I got my nickname from.

Later that year, I started to enter contests & even took 1st in the halfpipe & 2nd in the bowl in the first annual Delaware state Am. contest in '78. I also started to travel to legendary skateparks like: The Philadelphia Skatepark in Phila, PA, Cherry Hill Skatepark in Cherry Hill, NJ, as well as my first trip to Delmar in '80 or '81. (I can't remember). Back at Cherry Hill I had a chance to meet my first pro's including Brad Bowman, Jamie Godfrey, Tony Alva, Bert Lamar, Ernie Martin, and many others. I was hyped!!!

When skating died off in the early '80's, all the skateparks closed & riding was tough. I started skating again in my 1st yr. of college in 1984 after see a issue of Thrasher w/Christian Hosoi on the cover. I cut back my school, got a job at a local skateshop & began skating everyday, sometimes traveling 45mins each way to a pipe in Exton, PA or down to the Hell ramp in Chesapeake, MD. It was there the I first met current pro's Bucky Lasek & Derrick K. when they were just getting started. I got sponsored by Sure Grip and started traveling to more regional & national Am contest, & in 1996 placed 13th at the Am nationals. The next year I picked up a few different sponsors like, Kryptonics, Steve Steadham's board line & Billabong. I returned in 1997 to the nationals with a 6th place finish & turned pro at the end of that year.

My pro career was short but sweet, lasting from '87 to '92. Highlights were a 13th place finish in Seattle in '88, a few 15th's sprinkled here & there, and a 10th place finish in a contest in Michigan in '90, as was the traveling. I have always been grateful for the trips to Japan, Europe, & Australia as well as all the national traveling. It was the chance of a lifetime & very much enjoyed!!! The highlight was being a part of the first trip by a pro skater to South Africa in '90-'91.

After a serious injury in '91, I started to work in the industry as a sales rep. That's what lead me to doing what I am now: the southeastern sales rep for DC shoes & Ride snowboards. I've always want to continue being a part of skating and judging is it. I first judged a few contests in Fla. at the Surf Expo tradeshow, & most recently at the contest at Utopia Skatepark in Raleigh, NC.

I still skate, & like to snowboard, and play basketball & golf.