Engineers in Action is an article series developed to highlight a select group of individuals who have combined their engineering expertise with a passion to push themselves and respective sports to the limits. The most advantageous aspect of being an athlete as well as an engineer is that after graduation is complete, opportunities exists to design, test, and in some cases even invent the products used by generations of existing and upcoming athletes following in your footsteps. As those within these industries can attest, this can often lead one to the far stretches of the world pushing both the physical and mental aspects of human capabilities.