Terrance’s first sport had absolutely nothing to do with weightlifting. He grew up as a swimmer, a runner, bowler, and basketball player where he excelled in the sports. In high school, he played basketball, ran cross country and track where he has excelled. After high school, he received college athletic scholarships in basketball and track. As well as on a karate and wrestling team for NCAA Division I schools and has received numerous awards. After college, he took up bodybuilding and became a manager and trainer for a professional athlete who then became an NPC Bodybuilding champion and Gladiator.
Years later, he moved to the east coast and there he decided to go back to school for another degree where he attended an NCAA Division III school and was on the wrestling and crew team. While training he was offered a job as a personal trainer and the assistant wrestling coach for deaf athletes. There he coached and trained many athletes, including a new wrestler named, Matt “The Hammer” Hamill, who later became a three-time NCAA Division III National Champion.
After college, he got married and moved back west and just lifted weights when he could. As the years went by he realized he missed the sports and competition that helped him physically and mentally in all aspects of his life. Terrance has remarkable physical strength from when he started weight training as a bodybuilder and decided to get back into weightlifting again. He wanted to join a powerlifting team and after much research he came upon a team called PRAXIS instead. He decided to try out an Olympic weightlifting sport and fell in love with it. He started lifting in the summer of 2010 with Team Praxis, coached by Mike Carroll, a certified Olympic-style weightlifting and strength coach for over 10 years. Terrance holds the Utah state record for snatch, clean and jerk, and total (Master Men - 56kg and 62kg); and is the Utah State Champion from 2011 - 2015 and the Utah Summer Games, Gold medalist from 2011- 2014.