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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
CHILDREN In recent years, much of my activities are centered around my two children who are 7 and 10. My favorite activity is storytelling for young children. I love volunteering in school and helping to host the school's field trips to Ledyard's one room school house that my mother attended. I have fun as a soccer coach and wrestling coach and hope that I can show our next generation that exercise is fun and feels good. SPORTS MEDICINE In addition to coaching youth sports, I have donated my sports medicine skills to local high school sports teams, with many locker room treatments for the wrestling teams. In 1996 I received an additional degree as a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician and have worked at the Boston Marathon, with the Mohegan Striders, at martial arts and mixed martial arts competitions, the Norwich Navigators, the Mohegan Wolves arena football team, and the Nutmeg Games. My Sports Medicine Experience involves high profile emergency sports med at competitions (such as being filmed on ESPN), sweaty locker room treatments, and more often injury care at my office in Groton. It also involves performance enhancing maintenance treatments which are always helpful for athletes over 30 looking for peak performance. RECREATION and EXERCISE In the winter I enjoy hiking, sledding with the children, snow boarding, and cross country skiing. I play hockey at the Norwich Ice Rink. In the summer I enjoy water sports including kayaking, swimming, sailing, windsurfing, and wake boarding. In order to be able to exercise at least 3x/week I also do a mix of jogging, pilates, yoga, tai chi, weights and plyometrics. BEFORE KIDS I have volunteered as a mentor for other children, participated in local politics, and I worked for 4 years on a community group called Friends and Neighbors seeking to understand and improve relations with the Mashantucket Pequot community. |
