Name | Hometown | Previous College | Concentration | Previous or current athletics | Favorite recreation or hobby | Career Goal/ Next step | |
Alex McGrath | Spennymoor, England | Durham University | Strength and Conditioning | Cricket and Soccer | Playing golf and DJing | I want to play soccer and one day go into sport psychology | |
Jackson Royster | Mooresville, North Carolina | Appalachian State University | Clinical | | Snowboarding | Physical Therapist | |
Jake Conner | Fairfield, Virginia | University of Lynchburg | Strength and Conditioning | Baseball | Golf | Become a head strength and conditioning coach for Olympic sports at the collegiate level | |
Jen Tinsley | Versailles, Kentucky | Eastern Kentucky University | Research | Volleyball | Playing piano and hiking | Return to practicing as an athletic trainer while staying involved in translational, clinically applicable research. | |
Jessie Morgan | Summerfield, North Carolina | Appalachian State University | Clinical | Track | Running on the greenway or hiking on the parkway | After graduation I plan on sitting for my CEP exam and work as a clinical exercise physiologist for a few years, then eventually go back to school to become a PA. | |
Marc Augenreich | Cornelius, North Carolina | Appalachian State University | Research | Triathlon | Cycling or running | MD/PhD | |
Nick Tocci | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | Appalachian State University | Clinical | | Skiing | Planning to apply to PA school, while doing some sort of physiology/ clinical research position in the meantime. | |
Nina Stute | Oakwood, Ohio | The Ohio State University | Research, GRAM for Dr. Abigail Stickford in the Neural Cardiovascular Control Lab (NCCL) | Double Senior Gold Medalist of United States Figure Skating (USFSA) and current mediocre Powerlifter | Anything to do with my cats Murray and William, and talking to my mom! | Continue education in both the anatomical and exercise sciences | |
PJ Koopmans | Waunakee, Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin - La Crosse | Research | Track and Field and Powerlifting | Netflix and naps | Go on to get my PhD and then work in academia. | |
Ryan Evans | Indian Trail, North Carolina | University of North Carolina - Charlotte | Strength and Conditioning | Baseball | I like being active and outdoors, playing sports, fishing and lifting weights | I want to become a strength and conditioning coach at the collegiate or professional level . | |
Ryoji Ejima | Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan | University of California - San Diego | Strength and Conditioning (Performance Internship) | Football | Eating sushi, socializing with people and listening to music | Becoming a bridge as a strength coach between Japan and the United States. Becoming a strength coach in a professional field or sport. | |
Sarean Gaynor-Metzinger | Kernersville, North Carolina | Appalachian State University | Research | Powerlifting | Retreating to the mountains and crawling up and down them | I’d like to obtain some certifications as a powerlifting coach and achieve a career as such. Following, I intend to enter a doctoral program upon specifying my research interest with respect to weight training and biological sex differences. | |
Valesha Province | Tiffin, Ohio | Denison University | Strength and Conditioning | Basketball | Playing pick-up basketball | Collegiate strength coach at a Division 3 institution | |