Meet Your Coach
I’m Mary, the coach behind Icarus Koi Performance.
My background is rooted in athletics, performance, and structured coaching. I earned my degree in Sports Management and built my foundation through both competitive athletics and hands-on coaching experience.
I played collegiate softball at Southern Wesleyan University, where I also served as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. That experience shaped how I approach training, focused, intentional, and built around performance.
I’m also an ISSA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and Certified Sports Fitness Nutrition Specialist (CSFNS), allowing me to combine structured training with strategic nutrition coaching.
Through my work in personal training and nutrition coaching, I’ve worked with over 230+ clients, helping individuals build strength, improve performance, and create sustainable results.
That experience has shaped how I coach today, built on structure, consistency, and what actually works.
The name Icarus Koi represents two sides of growth. Icarus represents ambition, the drive to push limits and aim higher.
The koi represents discipline, the consistency required actually to sustain that growth. Most people fail because they lean too far into one or the other.
My coaching is built on balancing both, pushing you forward while giving you the structure to maintain it.
