Gnade joined the Missouri State staff in July 2024 after spending the last two years at Texas A&M University. While in College Station, she worked primarily with the Aggies' men's and women's tennis programs, in addition to serving the Aggie Dance Team.
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Prior to Texas A&M, she was an athletic trainer at SIU Edwardsville for two years, working with the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams from 2020 to 2022.
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A native on Monmouth, Iowa, Gnade received her undergraduate degree in Athletic Training from Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa in 2020. She then went on to pursue her master's in Kinesiology with a focus in Exercise and Sport Psychology from SIUE in 2022.