Jennifer French always loved the outdoors. She would experience camping and hiking in the woods and later get into other recreational sports such as; canoeing, snow skiing, scuba diving and sailing.

In 1998 Jen was on a snowboarding trip with her then boyfriend Tim. She had hit a patch of ice and damaged her spinal cord at the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae.

Jen was told by doctors that she would be a quad for the rest of her life. She did not want to let the human body beat the human spirit. So Jen began researching and came up with the Cleveland FES Center in Ohio. In 1999, Jen became the first woman to receive electrodes to help her stand and walk.