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Jeanette Watkins

Jeanette Watkins

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Penn State University and copy writer for the CrossFit Medical Society; an Adaptive CrossFit Coach, Certified CrossFit Trainer, and contributor to The Barbell Spin.

Aug 27, 2026

SpinHOST
2:47
they all were all the mentees in college then yes these
2:51
are undergraduate students um they were mostly in the u.s but yes i'm international as well but it's open for anybody and so that was like the first program where we were just kind of like feeling it out, there was some support for mentorship, but it was really like very organic.
3:04
We were just putting people together and they're meeting via Zoom.
3:09
So coming from that, we looked at some of the data, we were really stoked to see how engaged they were in like the CrossFit education side of things and, you know, getting into the open, those are metrics that are really exciting for us to see.
3:21
But at the end of the day, some things that the mentees had to say were like, I really want to get into my affiliate though.
3:27
and meet peers i don't just like meet a mentor i also want to meet people who i will be going with into the medical field when i graduate we'll be scientists side by side whatever it is um so we are kick-starting a new mentorship program um and what it's going to look like i'll walk through just like kind of the steps um is in september this month we'll have a qr code go out a link you'll see some stuff on social media where you can find that survey where we're just asking undergraduate students, if you think you might wanna do this, go ahead and fill it out and sign up.
4:01
I will tell you right now, it's gonna be pretty competitive.
SpinHOST
4:43
So for the mentors, who are these mentors?

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