[3] While training for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he was also doing shift work at John James Hospital in Canberra.

His father bought him his first bow at a garage sale,[4] and he has been competing in archery for over thirty years.

At the 1988 World Field Championships in Bolzano, Italy, he won a bronze medal in the junior men's recurve event.

[8] At the 1992 World Field Championships in Margraten, Netherlands, he was part of the Australian gold medal winning men's team alongside Clint Freeman and Tony Pitt Lancaster.

[8] He won a bronze medal in the men's recurve event at the 1994 World Field Championships in Vertus, France.

[9] He won a gold in the men's recurve event at the 1998 European Grand Prix in Czech Republic.

[10] At the 2008 World Cup in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, he was part of the Australian silver medal winning recurve team that.

[8] In March 2003, he was ranked the fourth best male Australian archer in recurve, ahead of Robert Turner.

[12] In October 2011, he participated in a 2012 Summer Olympics test event in London at the Lord's cricket ground.