Sports Medicine Responsible for providing medical coverage, recognition and treatment of injuries, and rehabilitation for all 14 intercollegiate teams and more than 300 student-athletes. Tennessee Tech’s Sports Medicine department provides some of the most complete and advanced care available.
Joe
ERDELJAC
v Director of Sports Medicine West Virginia, 1988
Joe Erdeljac was named in July 2008 as Head Athletic Trainer at Tennessee Tech University. Erdeljac previously served as an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Tennessee Tech for seven years, and worked for nine years with high school athletes for the Cookeville Regional Medical Center. Erdeljac was at Tech from 1992 to 1999. During that time, he was the Athletics Trainer for the men’s basketball team and worked with the student-athletes on all of Tech’s teams. A native of West Virginia, Erdeljac began his career in 1988 while
an undergraduate at the University of West Virginia. Upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree in Science and Physical Education, he took a graduate assistant position at Austin Peay and received his master’s degree in 1989. His first full-time position was Assistant Athletic Trainer at LaSalle University prior to joining the Tech staff. After seven years at TTU, he accepted a position in 1999 with the CRMC as Head Athletic Trainer for Upperman High School in Baxter. During his time with CRMC, he was a volunteer athletic trainer at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, working with the basketball teams and other Olympic team members. A member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), he is also in the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association (SEATA) and is currently serving as president of the Tennessee Athletic Trainers’ Society (TATS). Joe and his wife, Jessica, have one daughter, Riley Grace, born on December 15, 2008.
Assistant Athletic Trainers JAKE FOX --
with the baseball, cross country, track and football teams. He holds Jake Fox, a graduate assistant membership in several regional athletic trainer at the University associations, and is also a member of Tennessee at Chattanooga for of the National Athletic Trainers’ two years, became an assistant Association. athletics trainer at Tennessee Tech University in 2010. Fox earned his masters degree in clinical exercise RANDI KAPLAN-physiology while at Chattanooga, Building her professional resume receiving it in May. A native of with positions at the University of Canandaigua, N.Y., Fox earned Maryland Eastern Shore, Newberry Jake Fox Adam Graham Randi Kaplan Jessica Vaughan his Bachelor of Science degree in College and Niagara University, Athletic Training from East Carolina Randi Kaplan joined the Tennessee University where he worked with Tech Sports Medicine staff in January the football, volleyball and baseball teams, and also with high school teams in the 2012. A native of Salisbury, Md., Kaplan received her bachelor’s degree in biology area. He served as a graduate assistant in athletics at Chattanooga for two years. from the University of Albany in 2004 and went to graduate school at the University Prior to beginning his collegiate studies, Fox had more than 10 years of service of Buffalo. She graduated with honors from the combined BS/MS program in June in the U.S. Army, spending his time on active duty as a paratrooper and combat 2007 and was BOC certified in July. She was an Athletic Training Intern at Niagara medic. He was in Operation Iraqi Freedom II from 2003 to 2005. University for one year, then spent three years For the next three years, from 2007 to 2010, Randi was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Newberry College. In 2010, she was selected as Assistant Athletic Trainer at the ADAM GRAHAM -University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, a position she held until joining the Golden Adam Graham joined the Sports Medicine staff in 2011 as assistant athletic trainer. Eagle Sports Medicine staff. She is a member of the National Athletic Trainer’s A graduate of Western Carolina with a master’s degree from West Virginia, Graham Association (NATA) in addition to the College Athletic Trainer’s Society, the Maryland is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., and a 2008 graduate of Western Carolina with a Athletic Trainer’s Association and the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainer’s Association. bachelor’s degree in athletic training. As a student athletic trainer, he worked with the Catamount football and women’s basketball teams. During his time as an undergraduate, he also spent one summer in an internship position with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, working with the Bradenton Pirates in the Gulf Coast League. He also served in volunteer positions at the North Carolina State High School cross country and wrestling championships, and the Kentucky Bluegrass Games. As part of the WCU Athletic Training program, Graham had a stronghold on the department’s annual honors, winning the Outstanding Sophomore, Junior and Senior awards. After graduation, he spent one year in an internship position at Georgia Tech where he worked primarily with the Yellowjacket football team. His coverage also included working with the cross country and track teams, and the cheerleading squad. During 2010-11, Graham worked toward his master’s degree and served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at West Virginia University. His coverage with Mountaineer teams was
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JESSICA VAUGHAN --
Jessica Vaughan joined the Tennessee Tech athletic training staff in October 2011. A native of Camano Island, Wash., Vaughan did her undergraduate work at Washington State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a concentration in Athletic Training. From there, she attended graduate school at Seattle University, where she earned a Master of Sport Administration with a concentration in Leadership. While at Seattle, Vaughan served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer working primarily with baseball and men’s and women’s track and cross country. In her summers, Vaughan worked with the Bellingham Bells, a collegiate summer baseball team in Bellingham, Wash., which plays in the West Coast League. Vaughan resides in Cookeville.
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