Pioneering Athletic Trainer to Speak About Job Opportunities
Marjorie Albohm
Marjorie Albohm was the first full-time women’s head athletic trainer at Indiana University and went on to become president of the National Athletic Trainers Association. She also worked as a staff member of the Olympic Games, Pan American Games, Track and Field Olympic Trials, World Gymnastics Championships and was inducted into the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 1999.
Albohm now works as the director of clinical research and fellowships for Ossur Americas, the company that built the blades used by Oscar Pistorius of South Africa, the first amputee sprinter to compete in the Olympics this summer in London.
Albohm will talk with graduate athletic training education students at the University of Arkansas on Thursday, Nov. 1 about job opportunities that will be open to them after they earn their degree. Albohm will give a lecture titled “Your Future in Athletic Training: Emerging Practice Settings” at 6:30 p.m. in Room 311 at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building on campus. The public is also invited to the free presentation.
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Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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