ATHLETIC TRAINING / EQUIPMENT The athletic training staff is located in the Wellness Center, which opened in the spring of 2006. The staff is responsible for the conditioning and rehabilitation of over 500 Widener University’s student-athletes representing 20 sports. The staff consists of two full-time athletic trainers as well as several graduate and athletic training student interns. The athletic trainers have at their disposal a bevy of equipment ranging from separate MD exam rooms, two walk-in whirlpools with one cold plunge and one warm, up-to-date electromodalities and rehabilitation equipment. The department is headed by A.J. Duffy, in his 22nd year in this capacity at Widener and 30th in collegiate athletics. Duffy is primarily responsible for the football and men’s lacrosse teams as well as overseeing the entire athletic training staff. He also teaches athletic training classes at Widener and Temple University. He has been very active in the profession, serving various elected offices since 1993. Among those areas include President of the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society. Duffy also has given talks on both the regional and national level. Duffy has been cited as the 2002 Interboro Education Association Volunteer of the Year, the 2002 NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer, the 2003 EATA Cramer Award winner, the 2005 Philadelphia Sports Medicine Congress Ted Quedenfeld Award recipient, the 2007 Donald Grover Award by the ECAC and the 2011 Division III Athletic Trainer of the Year. Duffy, along with the Widener athletic training staff, helped create the “MAC ATtaCk on Hunger” in 2010. The initiative, which involves all 16 schools from the Middle Atlantic Conference, was instituted to help collect food and money for each school’s local food banks. Prior to arriving at Widener, Duffy was an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Michigan from 198490 and an assistant at Temple University from 1981-83. He earned his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1980, his M.S. from the University of Arizona in 1981 and his Physical Therapy Certificate from Drexel University (Hahnemann) in 1984. Duffy and his wife, Monica, a Widener graduate in Nursing, reside in Norwood, PA with their sons, Joseph, 21, and Connor, 20. The equipment staff is located primarily on the lower level of Schwartz Athletic Center. The football and men’s lacrosse teams have their equipment room located at Leslie C. Quick Jr. Stadium. The staff is comprised of two full-time managers as well as a plethora of student workers. The staff has played a major role in providing upgraded locker rooms at both Schwartz Center and Quick Stadium as well as maintaining the equipment rooms to meet the needs of Widener’s student-athletes. Keith Moodie is the primary equipment manager for football. In his fourth year, Moodie arrived after working for the University of Delaware from 2004-08, helping set up and break down for sporting events at the Bob Carpenter Center. He also served as an usher, security person and building supervisor for events. Moodie also worked in the equipment office at Wesleyan University for one year and as an undergraduate at Springfield College from 1995-97. Carol Farnan is in her 28th year in Widener’s Athletics Department. She serves as the football team’s administrative assistant.
2011 FOOTBALL
A.J. Duffy III Athletic Trainer 610-499-4445
Carol Farnan Football Admin. Asst.
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