Coach Team & Story of MouseTrap Fitness - CrossFit MouseTrap

We’ve both been involved in the Orlando CrossFit community for more than 8 years as athletes and members of several gyms around the area.

Allen is originally from St. Louis. His love of fitness began as a member of the Army Boxing Team at West Point. After college, he served as Master Fitness Trainer (planning physical training for his platoon), and eventually began running a personal training business while he worked at the Pentagon before relocating to Orlando.  Most recently, Allen served as Chief Operating Officer of local women’s sporting goods company RIP-IT Sports before taking the leap to full-time entrepreneurship in April of 2024.

Favorite Movement: Squat Clean

And me, Katie, I hail from Green Bay, Wisconsin. I grew up as a dancer, singer, and actress. Dancing was my preferred form of exercise, until Allen dragged me to a Halloween WOD on our third date, and I fell in love with the sport of fitness, too. My business background started in Sales for tourism companies, running events in Mexico (luckily I’m is fluent in Spanish). I had the pleasure of working with Allen as the Head of Sales for RIP-IT Sports, before jumping full-time into self employment in February 2024.  I like to think of myself as a super friendly and outgoing, people-person who brings charisma and hospitality to the MouseTrap Fitness community.

Favorite Movement: Squat Snatch

A little more about us, we’ve been married for 6 years and we live that CrossFit lifestyle. When we travel, we always drop-in somewhere, so a box needs to be nearby wherever we go.  Sometimes, we even bring our own weights on road-trip vacations and workout on the patio of an AirBnB or in a hotel parking lot!  Between the two of us, we’ve done several competitions (Zombie WODs, Bacon Beatdown/ACC, and War on Wall Street).  We will be competing for the first time as a Masters Team in the CF Championships in Lakeland, FL, too.  We are fans of the sport of CrossFit and tune in to watch as many events as we can.  Yeah, we live that CrossFit life. Allen and I are both CF-L1 Trainers and Katie looks forward to leveling up to a CF-L2 Trainer later this year.