Lindsey is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics with Masters Degrees in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition. She began her career as a Performance Coach/Nutritionist in 2008, before starting her own coaching business, Key Potential Performance, in 2014 while working as an Assistant Director in a K-12 nutrition program.

Lindsey spent the last five years as an Associate Athletic Director and Director of Performance Nutrition at the Division 1, Power 5 Collegiate Level (most recently at Washington State University). In June of 2022 she left Collegiate Athletics to focus on her private practice and coaching business working with recreational to elite athletes. Her and her husband, Scott Salwasser, reside in the Dallas-Fortworth area with their five children.