Meet Mary Double

Mary is a personal trainer and sports performance coach with over a decade of experience helping people build strength, move better, and stay healthy through every stage of life. She works with clients of all ages and fitness levels, with a primary focus on training athletes to improve performance, prevent injuries, and develop long-term strength.

That means male and female athletes from youth soccer through adult competition, active adults who want to get stronger, and athletes coming back from injury who need a bridge from rehab to full speed. She is Director of Sports Performance and a lead coach at Steel City FC, and most of her in-person training runs out of the club's facilities.

A former dual-sport collegiate athlete in soccer and track and field, Mary competed for four years at Muskingum University before continuing at the University of Mount Union, where she completed her Master of Education in Coaching with a focus on sports coaching and strength training.

She holds certifications as a Personal Trainer, Nutrition Specialist, and Sports Performance Specialist. She also works at Essential Strength of Pittsburgh, and she competed for four seasons on Steel City FC's Women's First Team.

Women's health is the side of the work she is building out as its own program: strength training for women, postpartum return to strength, and pelvic-floor-aware training. Too many women get handed programs that were never designed for them, and she wanted to fix that in Pittsburgh.

Double Standard is a play on her name, and a declaration of purpose: every athlete and every client gets a program built for them, whatever the sport, the age, or the starting point. For sport. For life.