Kinzee Salo

Biography

Kinzee Salo is in her fifth year with the Gustavus men's tennis coaching staff as an assistant in the 2024-25 academic year. Salo joined the Gusites as a volunteer assistant in the 2019-20 academic year and has helped coach one of the greatest men's tennis programs in Division III history, directing the Gusties to the past four MIAC regular season and playoff championships. Last season, she helped achieve a 23-8 overall record while reaching the second round of the NCAA tournament, coaching All-American doubles players and singles accolades. Prior to Gustavus, Salo assisted the women's tennis team at St. Catherine University from 2016-19. As a player at SCU, she was MIAC All-Conference in singles and doubles, graduating as the winningest doubles player with a 61-12 record and a member of the 2013 MIAC Championship team. She earned her master's in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota in 2019, where her research focused on narratives pertaining to female coaches and she worked with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, the first interdisciplinary research center dedicated to examining how sport affects girls and women.

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