{"id":29076,"date":"2025-10-18T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=29076"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:35:33","slug":"alumni-update-kristen-bourne-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2025\/10\/18\/alumni-update-kristen-bourne-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Update: Kristen Bourne ’13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MPAAfter graduating from MPA, I went on to get a bachelor’s degree in sports science from Northern Michigan University and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from The College of Saint Scholastica.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m currently a World Cup Coach for the US Cross Country Ski Team. I work with the top athletes on the national team as we prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano\/Cortina in February. My job takes me all over the world, from New Zealand to Scandinavia and anywhere in Europe that has snow. I coach many athletes on the national team, including Julia Kern, a two-time World Championship medalist and individual World Cup podium athlete.<\/p>\n

Much of my love for coaching and high performance came from the wonderful coaches I had throughout my time at MPA. My passion for elevating women in sport came from having head coach, Bev Docherty, as a role model and example of the power of women in leadership roles. Much of my coaching philosophy comes from the coach-athlete experience with her.<\/p>\n

I currently live in Truckee, California. When I\u2019m not traveling, I\u2019m running in the mountains with my corgi, Pico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After graduating from MPA, I went on to get a bachelor’s degree in sports science from Northern Michigan University and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from The College of Saint Scholastica. I\u2019m currently a World Cup Coach for the US Cross Country Ski Team. I work with the top athletes on the national team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":29078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-alumni","category-featured-posts","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29079,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions\/29079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}