{"id":11129,"date":"2025-11-19T16:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/?post_type=speakers&#038;p=11129"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:53:57","slug":"gretchen-kittelberger","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/speakers\/gretchen-kittelberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Kittelberger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Why Recognized Sports Governance Creates Sustainability For Athletes, Coaches, and Gym Owners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What you will learn:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Clarity on What Recognized Sports Governance Means<\/em> &#8211; We\u2019ll talk through what it means to have a true governing body and governance structures in the sport of functional fitness and the kind of safeguards and oversight that brings to the sport as a whole.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Real Life Examples of the Impact of National Sporting Recognition<\/em> &#8211; We\u2019ll discuss how getting functional fitness recognized as a sport on a national level creates job opportunities and advantages for athletes, coaches, gym owners, and administrators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>How You Can Get Involved<\/em> &#8211; Pathways to get involved and support national and international recognition for the sport will be discussed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More about Gretchen:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gretchen Kittelberger is the founder and President of the International Functional Fitness Federation. After her NCAA gymnastics career, she discovered CrossFit\u00ae, went all-in, and competed at the CrossFit Games four times as an individual from 2011\u20132014, including a regional win in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She later joined CrossFit, LLC as in-house legal counsel, and in 2016 launched the iF3 to build a true governance structure for the sport with the long-term goal of Olympic inclusion. Today she continues to lead the iF3 while working as an in-house attorney in the education technology sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11131,"template":"","class_list":["post-11129","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11310,"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11129\/revisions\/11310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachescongress.com\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}