Jessica Kinder joined the Rutgers Sports Medicine staff in 2021 as the athletic trainer for the Scarlet Knights' women's basketball and women's tennis programs.
Kinder graduated with a Master of Science in advanced athletic training from North Dakota State in 2018 and served for three seasons as the athletic trainer for Bradley University's women's basketball team prior to arriving at Rutgers. At Bradley, Kinder supervised student workers, and implemented ankle injury prevention and sleep health programs for her student-athletes.
Additional athletic training experience for Kinder include a graduate assistant post at Minnesota State working with football and swimming and diving, a PRN athletic trainer job at Sanford Health working with hockey, football, lacrosse, and soccer, and providing athletic training services to a number of summer camps in Minnesota.
Kinder is a NATA Certified Athletic Trainer, a Certified Kinesio Tape Practitioner, a Certified Graston M1, and a Red Cross Professional Rescuer in CPR and AED. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in athletic training from Illinois State University in 2016.
