{"id":17541,"date":"2023-09-07T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/?page_id=17541"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:01:28","slug":"ben-so","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/spotlights\/ben-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben So"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class of 2020<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"BenMajor<\/span><\/h3>\n

Health Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n

Current role<\/span><\/h3>\n

Head of Recovery Services and Strength & Conditioning Coach at Elite Wellness<\/a><\/p>\n

What got you interested in this field?<\/h3>\n

I’ve been surrounded by sports my whole, entire life. Played football growing up, always been attracted to lifting weights, learned at a young age how to lift weights at the age of 11 and the weight room was one place for me to escape. In my job, every day I get to work with athletes, trying to keep them proactive and teach them the same philosophy I was taught. And it’s build a foundation underneath you through weights, and being proactive and taking care of your body gets you from point A to point B on the field. I think the biggest part of it that kept me attracted to it\u2026it keeps that mentality of being competitive. When I step on the platform for powerlifting, it keeps me as competitive as possible. And Marymount kind of helped kick-start that. I got attracted with so many different professors and mentors in here, who I still keep in touch with today, who still guide me to this day and give me advice on things that I can do, the connections that I can make with people. How the world keeps going and keeps adapting with sports, you’re going to find a new way to treat an athlete. You’re going to find a new way to train an athlete, and that’s kind of how the networking just keeps spinning in the Marymount world. I’m really grateful for the friends that I’ve made here.<\/p>\n