Board of Directors

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Born and raised in South Minneapolis, Garrett graduated from Minneapolis Washburn and took a scholarship to play football at Saint Cloud State University in which he left after 1 year to pursue His rugby Career with the USA Olympic Rugby 7s team. Garrett played 5 years as a professional rugby player with the USA Olympic Rugby 7s team from 2011- 2016 culminating in being selected to the 12-player roster that represented Team USA in Rugby 7s at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Garrett has since retired from playing Rugby and has shifted his focus to coaching, mentoring and giving back to the community. He has coached all ages and skillsets, 4 years old - 50 years old, since 2016, most notably as the head coach of Metropolis Rugby Club's Men's team in 2019 and Women's 7s team in 2018 and assistant coach of the US Airforce Rugby program from 2017-2019. Garrett has dedicated his life to giving back in anyway he can, which led him to start the non-profit Hindsight Foundation in 2020 with the vision of providing free programming in the realms of life skills, leadership and growth mindset development to anyone we can reach all revolved around the question: "What advice would you give to your younger self?"

ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF
"Do not push people away in times of struggle, rather reach out for help and lean into the communities of positive people that are in your life because we cannot become our best selves without the help of others."

Coach Kemink received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a graduate  degree from DePaul University in Chicago. Previously she taught, coached dance team, assisted with the football program, and the summer leadership academy at Washburn. She is currently working as the AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) instructor at Brooklyn Center Secondary. In addition to teaching Coach K assists with the boys varsity basketball program at Brooklyn Center and works with my7on7 football in her spare time.

ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF

“Stay in school as long as you can!”
 

Born and raised on the southside of Minneapolis, In January of 2021 Coach Jenkins was hired by My7on7 to be the executive director of the High School Football Academy. Coach Jenkins spent the first 14 years at Minneapolis Washburn High School, his alma mater, where the Millers won 13 of 14 conference championships compiling a 109-34 record. This included 6 seasons as the head coach where his teams went 42-19. Over this period the Millers participated in 4 of 6 section championship games under Coach Jenkins leadership. After the 2014 season Coach Jenkins resigned his head coaching duties to pursue an opportunity to coach at the Division I level and serve as a volunteer assistant for Jerry Kill at the University of Minnesota where he spent two seasons working with the defensive line and secondary in 2015 and quarterbacks and wide receivers in 2016. In 2017, he joined the Hamline University Pipers where he coached the secondary in 2017 and the corners during the 2018 season. Jenkins returned to Minneapolis Washburn High School as an assistant coach in 2020. 

In 2014 Coach Jenkins received his master’s degree in Coaching from Ohio University. 

ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF
"Slow down and enjoy lives journey, smell the flowers, and look to build everlasting meaningful relationships. "

My name is Ryan Galindo. I am currently the head football coach at Minneapolis Washburn High School. Previously, I was an assistant coach at Washburn from 2004-2009 under then head coach Peter Haugen. In 2009, I followed Peter Haugen down to Gustavus Adolphus College as an assistant coach until the 2013 season. I then became an assistant coach at Washburn again under head coach Giovan Jenkins. I became the head football coach at Washburn before the 2015-2016 season.

ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF
"Remain focused on the small tasks and the process of my goals and experiences. "

 Hello

I am Mary Vollmar and I have worked in the Minneapolis Public Schools since 2014. I have coached volleyball and softball, along with studying nutrition and exercise science and am so excited to put that knowledge into Hindsight Foundation. Working with children and giving them the tools to become young, confident and caring leaders is my passion. This non-profit encompasses that and I truly can't wait to see where it goes. It also hits home because I attended Washburn and love to give back to the community. (in reference to the Washburn Athletic Leadership Academy (WALA).)

ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF

"Slow down, appreciate things more and really be grateful for all those fun moments. Remember to live in the moment and dwell less in the past and future."

I grew up in Minneapolis and attended Southwest High School. I played rugby and soccer in high school eventually falling in love with rugby enough to move to New Zealand to learn from the game and the culture.. After coming home, I realized how incomplete my life was. I was just running from one distraction to the next. AND I wanted to make a change...

I dove deep into the art and practice of yoga & meditation spending  5+ years teaching and leading. In 2018, I had two influential experiences that shaped my life. The first was a trip to Nairobi, Kenya to teach with Africa Yoga Project where I experience service and compassion in a way that totally changed my life. The other was living on Maui where  I studied permaculture, kuleana, nature & surfing. These two experiences helped me discovered more about myself and how I wanted to serve the world. 

Studying Ayurveda (Indian life knowledge) lead me to cooking and the want to share organic, plant based food with the world because I think everyone ought to have access to health. I dream of making that a reality while simultaneously revitalizing the earth. We can do this by creating healthy and regenerative systems by combining natural living with compassion, forgiveness, healing and love. Then, just like that, we got a pretty heavenly life that we can share with each other

This is the the knowledge I want to share with the world. My beloved daughter Evelyn has motivated me to live responsibly and love everyone I come into contact with. 

ADVICE TO YOUR YOUNGER SELF

When I look back on when I was 10, 15, 20 I wish I had more of this knowledge and awareness. I wish someone was introducing me to these concepts earlier. That is why I am a part of the Hindsight Foundations. I know Bender and this whole team can make a big difference at Washburn, in Minneapolis, and in the world.