Samantha was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Shortly after graduating high school, she attended Texas A&M University in College Station, where she majored in Kinesiology with a concentration in Applied Exercise Physiology. She became involved with the Athletic Training Internship program and worked with the National Championship track & field team, the Fightin’ Texas Aggie football team and SEC runner up women’s tennis team. Upon graduation in 2013, she became the women’s tennis athletic training intern. After graduating from the inaugural class in 2016, she accepted an athletic training/sports medicine teaching position at A&M Consolidated High School where she remained for a year. Most recently she worked as an Outreach Athletic Trainer for Memorial Hermann in Montgomery High School. Currently, she has started one of the first stand-alone athletic training rooms located in Chilled Cryospa in Katy, Texas.