Loves the gym Home base: Midtown Atlanta Family life: Single Work life: Fitness Content Marketer Age: 55 Jay Croft describes himself as “skinny, runty kid” growing up, enjoying rec baseball and basketball, but certainly not an athlete. And then came the summer of 1984, when Jay was in college and Bruce Springsteen burst onto the …
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Meet Glenn Shanholtzer
Life-long Recreational Athlete Home base: Tucker, GA Family life: Married, with a 12-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter Work life: Banker for Affinity Bank Age: 44 Glenn Shanholtzer competed in sports his entire life. Not just one sport — he played practically all of them: baseball, basketball, tennis, football and, more recently, adult league softball. That …
Meet Joel Pates
GE Power Service Sales Manager Home base: East Cobb Family life: Married to Danielle and father to three boys — Soren, 9, Fletcher, 10, and Jensen, 11 Work life: Sales Manager at GE Power Service Age: 46 Joel Pates got serious about sports at a young age. He started playing football in fifth grade and …
Meet Shonda Lawary
Owner of Best Self Total Wellness Home base: East Cobb Family life: Two children, a daughter in 3rd grade and a stepson in college. Work life: Owner of Best Self Total Wellness Age: 45 Shonda Lawary is enthusiastic about exercise. She tries to work out every day and get in 10,000 steps a day — …
Meet Erin Ellingwood
Mom of an Active Boy Home base: Kennesaw, GA Family life: Married to Chris, Mom to a young baseball star Work life: Director of Social Content, Cindy Miller Communications Age: 31 As the mother of a five-year-old boy, Erin Ellingwood is always on the move. As any parent knows, it’s pretty much non-stop from the time …
Meet Katrina Elliott
Part-Time FitnessBank VP, Full-Time Mother Home town: Huntsville, AL Home base: West Cobb, near Marietta Square Family life: Married to David, and the mother of 11-, 8- and 4-year old children Work life: Vice President at FitnessBank Age: 38 Growing up in Alabama, Katrina Elliott was a competitive dancer. Once in college, she gave up …
Meet Danny Bourgeois
Marketing Director/ Social Athlete Home town: New Orleans, LA Home base: Marietta, GA Family life: Beth’s husband, dad of two boys leaving him in the dust on the basketball court, cross country trail, and tennis court Work life: Marketing executive at FitnessBank, founding partner of the Louisiana Marathon, board member of Ainsley’s Angels of America …
