While at the Houston Ballet Academy, he danced with the Houston Ballet in Ben Stevenson's The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Cleopatra, L, Martinu 5th, and Swan Lake, Kenneth MacMillian's Mannon, Trey McIntyre's Peter Pan, as well as Graduation Ball, Vespri, and Le Diablo a Quatre.
Despite being offered a company position with Groundworks Dance Theater, she apprenticed with River North Chicago Dance Company.