my story

I want to give people that visit REV some insight into my perspective, approach, and culture via places of been, areas of emphasis I found of value, and concepts I studied over the last 20 years, as all of it has played a part in the creation of REV. There have been many iterations of REV throughout the last two decades in my various fitness entreprenureal adventures, I didn’t just begin here with REV. REV is where I have landed after spending the better part of 20 years in the sport specific, fitness, health, and wellness industries. REV is a result of trial and error, and community engagement via the gyms I’ve been so fortunate to be part of. So thank you for being here, for your curiosity and interest in your own health, wellness, and fitness.

I’ve always been an athlete. As a kid, I kept busy playing every sport available— football and basketball were and still are my favorites to date. Out of high school I earned a full athletic scholarship to University of Oregon, where I was captain of my Pacific 10 Conference women’s basketball teams and received a degree in Education with a minor in (P.E.) in 2001. We won multiple conference championships, made it to the BIG Dance all 4 years, and I collected national awards during my 4-year stint. After graduation, I played basketball overseas for a tour in Greece and Switzerland. Following my playing career I turned to coaching collegiate athletics for 5 years, at Seattle Pacific and Cal State Sacramento for both women’s basketball and strength & conditioning.

On one cold December morning in 2006, when I went with a former teammate to my first CrossFit group class in Seattle, WA a seed was planted that would ultimately take 11 months to flourish. Alas, in November of 2007 I opened my first CrossFit training facility in Bellingham, WA - JoGo CrossFit Bellingham. Bellingham was where I leaned on my experience as a collegiate athlete, honed in on my certification as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and put some undergraduate business classes to the test making Jogo a top notch training facility in Whatcom county. All while collecting a myriad of CrossFit, USA Weightlifting, and IKFF Kettlebell certifications to boost my confidence and resume as a small business owner and leader in my industry that was growing rapidly.

In 2009 I was captain of a team that won the CrossFit Games Affiliate Cup out of a gym I was part of in Seattle - NW CrossFit! What a thrill to be able to look back and say that I was fortunate enough to have competed at the birth place of the CrossFit Games in Aromas, CA! Later that same year, I would open The Lab Strength & Conditioning, Eastlake CrossFit in Seattle. Over the next 4-5 years I would go on to coach affiliate cup teams that went on to Regional competition with the CrossFit Games in 2012, 2013, 2014, & 2015. 2014 would also mark the first year…. or starting point to my continued passion project, REV.

During my 9 year stint in Seattle as a small business owner and entrepreneur, I studied with some of the best in the business (OPEX Fitness). I was coached and mentored by the legendary Functional Body Building creator - Marcus Filly, and I went back to school to collect my Body Work/Massage License on Capitol Hill at Discovery Point School of Massage. It was at DPSM that I further explored the body as a magnificent, complex, and integrated system. And I truly walked away feeling as though we can fix nothing in isolation.

Ferndale, WA became home for me and my growing family in 2018, and in 2019 I sold my gym - The Lab Strength and Conditioning, Eastlake CrossFit. However, I kept REV. In 2019 REV remained my body work and individualized training business. I had high hopes that I could continue to provide value remotely to my clients with their individualized training and eventually could build back a robust body work practice over time in north Whatcom County. The idea of a mobile massage business had crossed my mind, where I would bring my table to my clients at their preferred location. However, 2020 landed on the planet and things got weird, so I tabled my table for a few years (pun intended).

A few months into 2021, I received an email from my pal Jake detailing that he’d just purchased the old YMCA building off Barrett Road and was ready to take the plunge with bringing CrossFit (or some variation therein) to his already existing globo style 24/7/365 access gym- The Locker Room Fitness. I jumped onboard eager to help and to put my skills to the test once again in the health, wellness, and fitness arena. I had come to realize by this point in my life that I really enjoyed creating the business, implementing the processes, protocols, guardrails, guidelines, and the “how to” build a community of like minded fitness enthusiasts from the ground up. Less of my interest would lie in the nuance of the day to day coaching cadence. But there was plenty here to sink my teeth into for the time being and in September 2021 Locker Room Functional Fitness opened its doors to the public.

At the top of 2024 I began to study Functional Range Conditioning (FRC). FRC is a comprehensive joint training system that also has a manual therapy (massage) component. I was feeling pretty convicted in 2015 as I was coming out of massage school about the systems of the body being interdependent in order to function. Full well knowing that if one system is beat up and bruised, the body in its own magical way will compensate. In fact, can compensate for a very LONG time. My time studying FRC has further hammered my stake into the ground around the body, its magnificence and all the systems playing together in harmony. It is truly critical for LONG term health & wellness success. Nothing can be done in isolation, absolutely everything is connected.

Here we are in the home stretch of 2024. The weird years of 2020-2022 are behind us and I’m ready to put my table back in play and resurrect REV and its triple threat system of; body work/massage, functional range conditioning (FRC), and individual design training program.