University of Massachusets Athletics
Brodeur Receives Athletic Trainer Service Award
June 19, 2009 | General
June 19, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. - UMass Assistant Athletic Trainer Jennifer Brodeur was named a winner of the 2009 Athletic Trainer Service Award at the National Athletic Trainers' Association national convention in San Antonio, Texas on Friday. She is 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.
Examples of activities that are considered for the award are: state and district participation and leadership, service to the athletic training profession at the state and local levels, community volunteerism at the state and local levels, and grassroots public relations, including presentations, building awareness and education. Candidates must have a minimum of fifteen years as a certified member of the NATA in good standing.
Brodeur will begin her fourth year at UMass this fall. The 2009 season will be her third working with the football team, her second as the program's head athletic trainer. Brodeur has also worked with the UMass men's lacrosse, and swimming & diving teams.
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.