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Jennifer Brodeur, Ohio University 1991

BIO from our official site:
Quote:Jennifer Brodeur enters her fourth year as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Massachusetts and third working with the football team, second as the team's head athletic trainer. Brodeur has also worked with the UMass men's lacrosse, and swimming & diving teams.

Brodeur was honored with the 2009 Athletic Trainer Service Award at the National Athletic Trainers' Association national convention in San Antonio, Texas in June 2009. She was one of just 16 recipients of the annual award that recognizes NATA members for their contributions to the athletic training profession and the association. Although it is a national honor, local, state and district service is the focus of this award.

Brodeur is the president-elect of ATOM (Athletic Trainers of Massachusetts). She also directs the UMass Sports Medicine undergraduate intern program.

Brodeur came to Amherst after working for the WNBA's Connecticut Sun. Prior to the Sun, she worked as an athletic trainer at Providence College from 2001-2006, where she worked with the lacrosse team. Before Providence, she served as an athletic trainer at Fordham University from 1998-2001.

Brodeur has a bachelor's degree from Ohio University, where she graduated in 1991. She gained her master's from Austin Peay State University in Tennessee in 1993.

Now the Hartford article:
AMHERST, Mass. — Jennifer Brodeur has worked with professional athletes (with the Connecticut Sun and the now-defunct New England Blizzard). She's worked in college and high school sports. She's worked in clinics.

But Brodeur — who has risen at 4:30 each morning for the past three weeks to get to the training room at UMass before football practice — has found what she truly loves to do.

For the past four years, she has been the head football trainer at UMass, which will play in its first Division I-A game against UConn on Thursday at Rentschler Field.

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With the bump up to I-A, there are more players for Brodeur to deal with and more time spent in the training room during the offseason.

"More people, more intensity," she said. "For the first time ever, the whole team stayed this summer. There's more time involved. I'm up every morning at 4:30, here at 5:30. Practice is at 9. Tomorrow, we're off, but I'm doing two sets of treatments. It's a lot of hours. It's not for everybody."

"But I love this. I've done everything now, high school, college, clinic, professional — and college is definitely where I belong."

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