>> I went -- first off, I'm from Batesville, Mississippi, which is close to Oxford.
So I went to Ole Miss.
Grew up an Ole Miss fan.
My parents both went here so it's natural choice for me.
Came here and majored in exercise science.
Got my degree -- undergrad degree in that.
And then went to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson where I got my DPT.
And some of the reasons I chose therapy, PT, I have a cousin who has cerebral palsy.
He's 22 now.
But he's had PT his whole life.
And I've seen kind of what it can do for him.
How it's been able to help him.
So that was one thing I liked about it.
And I've also had older friends just from home that were therapist that kind of, you know,
didn't push it on me but always tried to, you know --
I admired them and admired what they did.
And they would always kind of, you know, nudge me in that direction.
And once I got to school, I started observing, you know, getting some hours that way.
And then, you know, just decided, hey, I'm going to do this.
I'm going to major in exercise science and, you know, try and focus and get my grades right
and that sort of thing to get into school so --