In 2002, Joe launched Swim Neptune, a year-round competitive USA Swimming Club that has grown to include locations across the Phoenix metro area and continues to nurture young swimmers in pursuit of their competitive goals.  Joe's current leadership in the sport of swimming includes the roles of Admin Vice Chair of Arizona Swimming and the Chair of the International Ice Swimming Association-USA.

Beginning in 2006 Joe trained teams of young swimmers to complete the swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco.  After one swimmer achieved this goal in 2006 the program grew to include hundreds of swimmers in an annual event approaching it's fifteenth anniversary.

In 1998 Joe set the 19 and under record at the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon, the result of a goal he set when he was 12 years old.  He has completed a total of seven Ironman races, including four at the World Championships in Hawaii.  He was named the USA Triathlon 2005 Professional Rookie of the Year.  Joe won two Junior National Championships, is a six-time Triathlon All-American, and has represented the USA in ten World Championship events.  He competed in 13 countries and 27 states during his career as an amateur and professional triathlete.  Currently, Joe is one of the world's most prolific Open Water Swimmers.  He holds the world record for Longest Lake Swim (Multi-Segment), swimming nearly 70 miles non-stop in over 47 hours.  His full list of open water swims is here.

Joe earned a full tuition academic scholarship to Lake Forest College where he graduated in 2002 Summa Cum Laude and Phie Beta Kappa.  He was a Rhodes Scholarship semi-finalist and recipient of the Graduating Scholar Athlete Award and the Senior Inderpendent Scholar Prize.  While at Lake Forest College Joe was a two-time captain of the Varsity Swim team and three-time captain of the Varsity Cross Country team, setting school records in both sports.  At Horizon High School in Phoenix, Arizona he lettered in swimming and cross country.