Mackenzie "Mack" Wartenberger, has successfully made a mid-career pivot from being an elite NCAA collegiate athletics coach, to an up-and-comer in the field of cybersecurity. In just her first six months as a cyber security technician, Mack grew from a GRC Specialist role into a Zero Trust Security Architect, for both government and commercial services, as well as in SaaS Governance. Mack's experience and skills are the result of being the inaugural apprentice to graduate from the Aquia Accelerator Program, a paid apprenticeship program started by cybersecurity firm, Aquia Inc, that is receiving national attention for focusing on spinning up new cyber security specialists from underrepresented populations, who bring strong soft skills and new perspectives (but non-technical backgrounds) to the cyber security space.