Entrepreneur Award

The Entrepreneur Award recognizes a Health and Human Sciences graduate's entrepreneurial spirit and success in business. To be considered for this award, the recipient must demonstrate significant success in applying Health and Human Sciences knowledge as a business owner. Recipients also make contributions and provide leadership in community affairs, organizations and service groups and have demonstrated support of K-State and the College of Health and Human Sciences.

2023 Recipient:

Jeremy Keen ’11, ‘13

Jeremy Keen is the owner and founder of Keen Sports Performance, LLC., a personal training company he started in February 2018.

Keen Sports Performance is devoted to working with a variety of individuals including, but not limited to, athletes, rehabilitation patients and the general public. Keen’s mission is to provide a fun, yet innovative, strength and conditioning program where any client can achieve their goals.

He does this by providing evidence-based research, collaborating with other health professionals, and above all else passion!

Keen has four publications through various online journals and loves to apply evidence-based training methods with his current clientele. He presented his work at the 2012 and 2013 Experimental Biology Conference.

In 2011, Keen became a Level-One CrossFit trainer and continues to implement CrossFit methodology in his work. In 2013, he earned his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and his USAW-L1 Sports Performance Coach certification through the United States Association of Weightlifting. He was also a previous collegiate wrestler at Kansas State University in 2007 and a competitive Olympic weightlifter.

He is a two-time graduate of K-State, earning his bachelor’s degree in 2011 and his master’s degree in 2013, both in kinesiology.

Past Recipients