about
Hi, I am Drake! I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina but I grew up in Leesburg, Virginia. I attended Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. During my high school years, I would often run through the streets of D.C. for inspiration. On those inspirational trips, I would strike up conversations with visitors from all over the world - as a result of those talks, I realized love for sports transcends cultures & languages, and brings people closer together regardless of where a person hails from.
After attending and starting on the Varsity Men’s Lacrosse team at Dartmouth College my first year in college, I decided that I wanted to attend a top university for both academics and athletics. Naturally, there are only a handful of top-ranked universities and schools within the country that offer both. After speaking with friends from the University of Michigan and meeting several impressive alumni within the sports industry at an event in NYC, I knew that there was only one program that I wanted to attend and would work extremely hard to do everything necessary to become a full-time Division I Student-Athlete within the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan.
My pursuit of this goal was achieved as an incoming recruit on the University of Michigan Men’s Varsity Lacrosse Team and later successful acceptance into the Sports Management Program as a second-semester sophomore. While at Ann Arbor, I served on the University of Michigan NCAA Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC), the Michigan Sports Business Association (SBA) Journal Committee, and as a University of Michigan Athletics Student Ambassador.
I am a dedicated student-athlete committed to my university, coaches, team, and family in aspiring for a career in the sports industry. Similar to many athletes, sports are an extension of who I am, who I have become, and who I choose to spend my time with. Being an athlete at the collegiate level allows me to work and play with some of the most impressive students, leaders, and organizations in the world that set out to create a better world for all of us.
