Jennifer Brinkle is a native Southern Californian, raised in the Inland Empire and graduated from Fontana’s A.B. Miller High School before moving on to Cal State San Bernardino where she earned a BA in Eduation with a Minor in child pyschology and dance.  The dancing part of all of that has been with her almost her entire life, as she started dancing competitively at 4 years old and cheered throughout high school and part of college.  She worked as a cheer coach and taught dance classes after college while also holding down a full time job as a bank manager.  For a spell, she ran a Party Planning Service and worked in retail.

Later, Jennifer earned her teaching credential from the University of Redlands and her Masters in Eduction from Cal Baptist University.

Her teaching career started at the elementary level, working in Perris with 4th graders and middle schoolers, teaching English, AVID and history.  While there she took the initiative to start  a competitive school cheer team that is still a functioning squad today, long after she left.

Upon arrival at King just before the Pandemic, she took over the cheer program and teaches Credit Recovery, helping students who are credit deficient earn credits to graduate from King.

Jennifer has been married since 2005 and she and her husband are parents to two daughters; one who is a part of the class of ’26 at MLK while the other is in elementary school.  Both are in competitive cheer and dance.  Together, the family  lives in the community and love being a part of Orangecrest. In their free time, they love camping, riding  dirt bikes and taking their side by side out to the desert, playing pickle ball, attending concerts or sporting events and spending time with friends and family