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Women of Distinction
Symbiotic Training Center

Making a Difference for Today's Athletes

By Judith A. Habert

Joe Musgrove has brought their physical and mental edge-
so much to San Diego since a place where you can do your
coming home to a position physical therapy, workout, and
as a starting Pitcher for the recovery, all under one roof."
San Diego Padres. Of course, Born and raised in En-
there was the first No Hit- gland, Jono came to the US to
ter in the San Diego Padres' attend college. "I moved to the
54-year history and a long list United States when I was 20 to
of charitable endeavors to his attend school in Ohio. I played
credit, but that's not all. With basketball in college, and that
his recent grand opening of is when I began studying ki-
Symbiotic Training Center, he nesiology. I ended up moving
is now sharing with our town my efforts less towards playing
the professional techniques sports and more towards
and training that helped Joe studying them, which led me
attain his position as one of the to move to California to begin
great pitchers in the game of my career training athletes."
baseball. At first, Jono lived in Or-
Symbiotic Training Center ange County and was training
had its grand opening earlier baseball players there when
this month. I had the good he heard about Dominick
fortune of being able to tour Johnson, a renowned pitching
the facility and meet some of coach in San Diego, who was
the professionals who make also working with one of his
this center so unique. It is San personal training clients. "I
Diego's Top Training Center made the move to San Diego,
for Baseball Athletes. Symbiotic and Dominick sent me over a
is a collaborative community few of his young guys to start
providing both education and working with. One of those
opportunity to driven athletes. athletes was his Godson, Joe
Originally founded in Musgrove."
2017 by Jono Green and Dana Joe added, "When I started
Sorensen, Symbiotic is a col- training with Jono about ten
lective of diverse backgrounds, years ago, I realized how much
skill sets, and modalities. Joe I had to gain working one-on-
Musgrove was introduced to one with a personal trainer.
Jono Green by his Godfather As the years went by, Jono left
and pitching coach, Dominick the facility where he worked
Johnson, and as they say, the in hopes of starting his own
rest is history. business. This required a large
Joe worked closely with outlay of capital to do so. At
Jono for close to ten years Photos Courtesy of Jono Green first, we were bouncing around
and always knew that at some of my 12+ years in profes- puts in front of you. I want to different gym spaces or
point, he wanted to share sional baseball, one thing I've to share this community and working outdoors at the beach;
Jono's expertise with other learned is that you can't do it experience with the athletes of the ultimate goal was to find a
athletes who he knew would alone. Building an experienced San Diego. Symbiotic is a place large enough space to build the
benefit from the intense train- and dedicated team of people where you can gain access to ultimate training facility."
ing he had received. In Joe's around you is key to overcom- the things that professionals On July 6, 2023, Joe Mus-
own words, "Over the course ing the obstacles that the game do on a daily basis to maintain grove and trainer Jono Green

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