Demon Sports Medicine Staff

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 partnership 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.

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two seasons, traveling to away games and assisting the head athletic trainer with daily duties.

The Opelousas native also assisted in coverage of the Ragin’ Cajuns football and baseball teams. Standiford is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Louisiana Athletic Trainers Association who is certified in Red Cross AED, CPR and first aid.

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

Kalevi Pajuluoma was named Northwestern State's interim assistant director Fourth season at Northwestern State of sports medicine in August 2020 after spending one season as a graduate assistant athletic trainer on the NSU staff. Pajuluoma spent more than two years at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, assisting with Brittany Goldberg returned to Northwestern State as its assistant director of sports medicine in July 2018 after a short stint at UL Lafayette. men’s basketball, volleyball, men’s and women’s tennis and track and field. The Lake Havasu City, Arizona, native graduated from Northwestern State

He also assisted W.B. Ray High in a variety of sports for one year. with a masters in health and human performance with a concentration in health

Pajuluoma gained additional experience with events like the Manning Passing promotion in May 2018, after spending two years working as an athletic trainer Academy, large-scale high school track meets and college tennis tournaments and high with soccer, spring volleyball, tennis and football. school cross country meets among others. She is the primary athletic trainer for Northwestern State baseball.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in May and is CPR and first-aid certified. The Southern Utah graduate earned a degree in athletic training and exercise

Nicknamed “Kal,” he also learned on the job while attending Diablo Valley College science while serving two athletics seasons with duties ranging from emergency where he assisted with soccer, basketball, football and volleyball. care, rehabilitation and baseline concussion testing. Her sport assignments included football, softball, men’s basketball, gymnastics, cross country, track and field, volleyball and tennis. Goldberg served Parowan ZACHERY STANDIFORD High School in a variety of sports as well as the Utah High School Activities AssociaATHLETIC TRAINER GRADUATE ASSISTANT tion football championships. UL Lafayette, 2020; 1st season at Northwestern State Goldberg is a licensed athletic trainer by the State of Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners, a BOC certified athletic trainer and a Red Cross certified professional

Zachery Standiford begins his first season as a graduate assistant athletic trainer rescuer. Goldberg, a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the with the NSU men’s basketball team. Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers’ Association, was awarded the Big Sky Football

Standiford served the UL Lafayette men’s basketball team as an undergraduate for Officials Association Student Athletic Trainer Scholarship in 2015.

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