Athletic Training Bucknell’s athletic training staff, headed by Mark Keppler, provides outstanding medical care for each of Bucknell’s student-athletes. Keppler and his staff recently moved into a brand new, state-of-the-art athletic training room as part of the Kenneth G. Langone Athletics and Recreation Center design. There is also a fully-equipped athletic training facility in Christy MathewsonMemorial Stadium, adjacent to the football team locker room, and satellite training rooms at Sojka Pavilion and West Fields. The philosophy of the Bucknell sports medicine team is a commitment to providing the best care for Bison student-athletes. Its injury and rehab protocols are developed to help decrease athletics-related injuries, increase injury recovery time, and combine strength and flexibility, endurance and sport-specific functional activities. Every injured Bucknell student-athlete is attended by an athletic trainer at the time the injury occurs. Each of Bucknell’s professional staff trainers are state and nationally certified, and they are assisted on-site by a quality team of student athletic trainers. The care for all Bucknell students ultimately falls under the direction of Dr. Donald Stechschulte, the director of the University’s student health service. Athletes sustaining serious injuries requiring immediate attention in a hospital setting are sent to the emergency room of the Evangelical Community Hospital, located just two miles from the Bucknell campus.
Athletic Training Staff
Mark Keppler Assistant Director of Athletics, Head Athletic Trainer Associate Athletics Director Mark Keppler, now in his 27th year as Bucknell’s head athletic trainer, oversees Bucknell’s athletic training and sports medicine program. Keppler coordinates the work of seven professional staff members and a dedicated group of student assistants. The head trainer at Carnegie Mellon University for 11 years before coming to Bucknell, Keppler is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and is both state- and nationally-certified. From 1982-84 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Athletic Training Society, and from 1984-97 he served with the Athletic Training Advisory Commission to the State Board of Physical Therapy. He is currently the Convention Chair for PATS and was inducted into that organization’s Hall of Fame in June 2006. Keppler is a 1973 graduate of Florida State University and holds a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After working with the football program for his first three years at Bucknell, Keppler moved to the fieldhouse training room to coordinate the athletic training office for the entire athletic department. In the fall of 1999, he once again took over as the primary football trainer, in addition to running the athletic training office. Keppler also serves as the primary athletic trainer for spring football, and supervises off-season rehabilitation programs for any injured Bison football players. Keppler and his wife, Wanda, reside in Lewisburg and are the parents of daughters Sarah and Reta.
Mark Keppler is in his 27th year as the head athletic trainer and handles all the athletic training needs for the Bison football, rowing and cross country/track and field teams. Andrei Tarsici, a 2004 graduate of Penn State University, is in his ninth year at Bucknell and works with the Bison women’s soccer men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse programs. Kristin Funk-Maguire and Kristin Klinger both joined Bucknell’s athletic training staff prior to 2010-11. Funk-Maguire, a 2003 East Stroudsburg graduate, works with the football, men’s and women’s cross country/ track and field and baseball programs. A 2005 Clarion graduate, Klinger works primarily with Bucknell’s volleyball, wrestling and softball teams. Jamie Lavis is in her third year at Bucknell as well and works with women’s basketball and men’s and women’s water polo. She is a 2006 graduate of California University of Pennsylvania. Cheri Orndorff also joined Keppler’s staff in the summer of 2010 as the athletic training clinical specialist and covers women’s rowing. A 1998 graduate of Lock Haven University, she serves as the rehabilitation specialist with Bucknell’s athletic teams. The newest additions to the staff are Joanna Murray, who joined the team in 2011, and Pam Staso, who came to Bucknell during the 201213 school year. A 2010 Frostburg State graduate, Murray works with field hockey and men’s and women’s swimming and diving. Staso, a graduate of Salisbury State, works with men’s soccer, men’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s tennis.
Partnership With Geisinger Sports Medicine In August 2005, Bucknell director of athletics and recreation John Hardt and Geisinger chief of sports medicine Daniel Feldmann, MD, announced a partnership that makes Geisinger Sports Medicine the exclusive sports medicine provider for Bucknell University Athletics. Geisinger’s team of orthopaedic specialists, certified in a wide array of specialties, is responsible for the care and treatment of more than 700 Division I student-athletes participating in varsity athletics at Bucknell. Geisinger Health System is an integrated, physician-led healthcare services organization that serves more than two million residents throughout central and northeastern Pennsylvania. It includes a 650-member multi-specialty physician practice, a tertiary/quaternary medical center and an acute-care community hospital, adult and pediatric trauma centers, a nationally acclaimed alcohol and chemical dependency treatment center, heart and cancer institutes, a neurosciences program, two ucknell ports edicine ersonnel research centers, 41 community practice offices and one of the largest not-for-profit rural HMOs in the country. In addition to meeting the on-campus needs of the Bucknell student-athletes, Geisinger has just opened a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary sports medicine facility at Geisinger Medical Center Outpatient Surgery Center—Woodbine Lane (off Route 11, Danville). This one-stop complex features an open MRI for on-site diagnostics, a therapy pool and facilities for athlete rehabilitaJamie Lavis Cheri Orndorff Kristin Klinger Mark Keppler Kristin Funk-Maguire tion. For more on the Geisinger Sports Medicine program Athletic Training Assistant Athletic Assistant Athletic Assistant Athletic Assoc.. AD/Head Trainer Clinical Specialist Trainer Athletic Trainer Trainer and staff, please visit: www.geisinger.org/consumers/ services/sports_med/index.html
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