Our Course Director

Jennifer Sanders

Five-time American Ninja Warrior, World Ninja League's 2024 Coach of the Year, and the course designer who approves every WNA course.

Our Course Director

Jenn's story

Jennifer Sanders is the Site Manager at Movement Lab Ohio, a five-time American Ninja Warrior, and World Ninja League's 2024 Coach of the Year. Jenn's main focus is empowering young women to be the best they can be in the sport of ninja through appropriate course design.

After a season off, Jenn is back on American Ninja Warrior for Season 19, her sixth season on the show.

Movement Lab Ohio Jenn on Instagram

Jennifer Sanders in a Women's Ninja Association shirt, arms crossed and smiling

From Jenn's Instagram

Jenn's take on the kinda chic trend, her Women's Day thank-you to Megan for making a space where women in ninja can keep growing, and the WNA x MLAB event she ran in Columbus, where the energy was "absolutely ELECTRIC all weekend", and her wrap-up of Season 1 at the Finals at Motus Ninjas. The MLAB photo is by @thephotoninja.hart.

A coach in an MLAB sweatshirt laughing as she runs to hug a young athlete in a purple MLAB jersey, with the words: kinda chic to support people loudly

Jenn swinging from a red ring under lit-up truss, with the words: kinda chic to fail and have the courage to try again

An athlete in a WNA Season 1 Championships shirt holding her medal at Motus Ninjas, with the words: kinda chic to be a woman in ninja

In black and white, a woman in a WNA shirt hands a gymnastic ring down from the course to an athlete reaching up for it

An athlete in a teal shirt hanging from the handle of a tilted board obstacle as a crowd of women and girls watches at the WNA x MLAB event

An athlete in grey sweatpants pulling up on the handles of a big wheel obstacle on the Motus Ninjas course

Jenn on American Ninja Warrior

Jenn, then competing as Jennifer Stefano, on The Ninjababes podcast: how to cast for American Ninja Warrior and her rookie year in Season 12.

Jennifer Stefano and how to cast for American Ninja WarriorThe Ninjababes podcast, 2021

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Her posts on Instagram.

Jenn's ANW Season 19 news Jenn's kinda chic post Jenn's Women's Day post Jenn on the WNA x MLAB event Jenn's Season 1 wrap-up Back to About WNA