NSU Sports Medicine

Kolleen Brown is in her third season as part of the Northwestern State sports medicine staff.

Brown, who arrived in Natchitoches in August 2017, is Northwestern State’s primary athletic trainer for women’s basketball.

A former all-conference soccer player at Morrisville State, Brown earned her undergraduate degree in human performance and health promotion before collecting her master’s degree in athletic training from Daemen College. Brown also played lacrosse, where she helped her team to the NAC West Division Championship Tournament. While at Utica College, Brown was the primary athletic trainer for women’s ice hockey and women’s lacrosse. Brown worked with Niagara University’s men’s hockey team in 2016 and with the University of Buffalo’s women’s soccer team in 2014. She also worked with the Buffalo football team during spring practice in 2015. Her time at Niagara and Buffalo came while she was earning her master’s degree from Daemen.

Brown also performed occupational medical clearance physicals at Healthworks in Buffalo.

A Licensed Athletic Trainer, Brown is BOC certified and holds a CDC concussion certification. She is first-aid/CPR/AED certified and is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. 3RD YEAR AT NSU Now in his 15th season at Northwestern State, Jason Drury was promoted to director of sports medicine in 2012 after the retirement of long-time athletic trainer Ed Evans. Drury joined the sports medicine staff at Northwestern State University in the summer of 2005 after being the head athletic trainer at Natchitoches Central for five years.

Drury was instrumental in developing Northwestern State’s parternship with Natchitoches Regional Medical Center, which doubled NSU’s full-time sports medicine staff in 2015.

In the spring of 2009, Drury took over as the head football athletic trainer for the Demons, after working for three seasons with the women’s soccer team and one season with men’s basketball team.

A 1999 graduate of Idaho State University in biology, Drury worked with numerous sports in Pocatello, Idaho, including football, men’s basketball and track and field. Drury earned his master’s degree in sports administration from Northwestern State in 2001, during which time he worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the NSU softball team.

Drury is a native of Paoli, Indiana. He and his wife, Toni, have been married for 16 years. They have two children, Maddox and Kenzie. Jason DRURY 15TH YEAR AT NSU Director of Sports Medicine Ashley Leggett-Pugh is in her fourth season with the Northwestern State athletic training staff. She is hired through NSU’s partnership with Natchitoches Regional Medical Center.

Leggett-Pugh is one of two primary athletic trainers handling football, and she assists with other NSU sports.

Before NSU, Leggett-Pugh interned at Samford, where she served the softball and volleyball programs. She organized physical examinations, SCAT3 and ImPACT testing for softball and volleyball student-athletes along with the rehabilitation, management and treatment of injuries. In addition, she implemented post-surgical SLAP repair protocol and a return-to-play throwing program.

After graduating from Alabama in 2013 with a bachelor’s of science in athletic training, she completed a master’s at Iowa in leisure and recreational sports management in 2015.

As a graduate assistant trainer at Iowa, she worked with the softball program. Leggett-Pugh managed all aspects of daily medical needs including prevention, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of student-athletes. As an athletic training student at Alabama, she aided the football, softball, swimming and diving programs as well as the rowing team. She traveled with the football team to the SEC and national championships and worked the Women’s College World Series.

Leggett-Pugh has also worked with the Alabama Patrick Murphy Softball School, the Nick Saban Football Camp, and the Big Ten Cross Country Championship among other events. Her professional memberships and certifications include the states of Louisiana, Iowa and Alabama athletic training boards, a, NATABOC Certified Athletic Trainer, a National Athletic Trainers’ Association member, a Southeastern Athletic Trainers’ Association member, and an American Heart Association CPR Health Care provider. Leggett-Pugh is married to Clint Pugh, an assistant business manager in NSU athletics. 4TH YEAR AT NSU