Jessica Kinder joined the App State Sports Medicine staff in Aug. 2025 as the athletic trainer for the Mountaineer men’s basketball program.
 
Kinder comes to App State from Ball State, where she worked with the men’s basketball team for the 2024-25 season. Kinder also worked with the women’s basketball team at Rutgers (2021-2024) and Bradley (2018-21).
 
At Bradley, Kinder supervised student workers and implemented ankle injury and sleep health programs for her student-athletes. She also worked at Minnesota State University Moorhead for two years, serving as a graduate assistant athletic trainer, working with football, swimming and diving, cross country, and track & field.
 
Kinder is a NATA-certified athletic trainer, a certified Kinesio Tape practitioner, a Red Cross professional rescuer in CPR and AED and a corrective exercise specialist. She graduated from Illinois State University in 2016 with a degree in Athletic Training and earned her master’s in advanced athletic training from North Dakota State University in 2018.