Background
He was born without his left hand.
He was born without his left hand.
He attended high school at Marcellin College Randwick.
He turned to swimming after his rugby league career was ended by a knee ligament injury. He was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder. In 2011, at the age of 26, he competed in the Can-Am Swimming Open, where he earned a gold medal in the S10 200m butterfly event, a silver medal in the men’s SM10 200 m individual medley, and a bronze in the 100m freestyle event.
He finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts, fifth in the 200 m individual medley SM10, ninth in the 100 m butterfly S10 and eleventh in the 50 m freestyle S10.
He works as a swimming coach at Matthew Flinders Anglican College"s Flinders Swim Club. As of 2015, he is coached by January Cameron at the University of the Sunshine Coast.