Gwen was a competitive cheerleader for 10 years, and was captain of her junior and senior year of high school and as well as her senior year of college. With the goal of motivating her team to work hard, Gwen oversaw the team’s conditioning. Post college, Gwen was a nationally qualified NPC Bikini competitor and competed in the NPC for 4 years. After spending countless hours at the gym doing the same routine training, Gwen wanted a change so she decided to try CrossFit. Gwen was introduced to CrossFit in March, 2016 at CrossFit DC and immediately fell in love. Gwen started law school at Catholic University Columbus School of Law in the Fall of 2016. After celebrating her one year anniversary with CrossFit, Gwen earned her L1 coaching certificate in April 2017.