Anna Zamora, or Coach Z, is a strength and conditioning coach at DePaul University who is also a member of the Illinois National Guard.  Currently, she’s on leave from DePaul while helping to develop the Army combat fitness test as a project officer for the Guard.

Anna did not go directly to college after high school, working in a bank for 6 years before joining the military as a route to earn her college degree.  After college she earned a Master's in sport management. 

Coach Z has worked at Duke, Yale, UConn, and Penn State before finding herself at DePaul.  Throughout it all, she has kept up her commitment in the Army, and her current position developing the Army combat fitness test truly merges two of her strongest passions.

We talk about

• Taking a non-traditional path in her education and career
• How to quickly build a support system when moving between jobs
• Building a healthy personal relationship with fitness that is not based on fitting a certain physical look or external expectation

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