Breaking Barriers in Pro Football with Kelsey Martinez
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Kelsey Martinez was born into a family of die-hard athletes in Pueblo, Colorado. There wasn't a sport that she and her siblings didn't love from the time they were children and their parents encouraged them to play them all. But it was a professional football that won Kelsey over when one of the best coaches in the NFL, Jon Gruden, recruited her and her boss, coach Tom Shaw, to become part of the coaching inner circle of the Oakland Raiders.
Kelsey knew that she would be the first female strength training coach in the history of the franchise, and the first Latina coach in the NFL, but she says she had no idea how big a deal it really was until the press came calling and the male coaches on the team told her that with her talent she had paved the way for their daughters to one day fulfill their dreams. Now she is on a mission to help others be their best on and off the field
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