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2016-17
SWIMMING & DIVING
LUKE BRADFORD
BRITTANY BLUNT POS. ALMA MATER
ATHLETIC TRAINER LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
First year Kansas athletic trainer Brittany Blunt is continuing the family business of sorts. Greatly influenced by her mother, a neo-natal nurse, and her aunt, a collegiate basketball student-athlete, Blunt has naturally combined the professions of her two mentors and is a National Athletic Trainers’ Association Certified Athletic Trainer. She is licensed by both the Texas Advisory Board and Kansas State Board of Healing Arts to practice sports medicine. No stranger to the physical demands of performing at the highest level, Blunt is a former track and field athlete who leans on her own competitive experience to provide empathetic and effective care. Blunt finished among the NJCAA’s top10 in hammer and weight throws at Coffeyville Community College before contributing in throws at Louisiana-Lafeyette, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science. Blunt returned to the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to earn an athletic training degree from the University of Texas at Arlington, a little more than a hammer’s throw from her hometown of Grand Prairie, Texas. Blunt gained experience in the field while interning for her hometown’s minor league baseball team, the Grand Prarie Airhogs. Blunt is excited to combine what in her mind is the best of both worlds - athletics and medicine - while working with the swimming and diving squad.
POS.
STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING
ALMA MATER
EMPORIA STATE
Luke Bradford is the strength and conditioning coach for the Jayhawk baseball, soccer, volleyball and swimming and diving teams. He is a National Strength and Conditiong Association Certified Strength and Conditioning specialist and a Muscle Activation Techniques specialist. He is also certified with USA Track and Field. Bradford came to KU in June of 2010 after serving as the Sports Performance Director at Velocity Sports Performance from 2003-10. He was also an assistant baseball coach/strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, Emporia State, for two seasons. A varsity baseball player at Hutchinson Community College and Emporia State during his collegiate career, Bradford earned his bachelor’s degree from Emporia State in 2002 and a graduate degree from KU in 2011. Bradford and his wife, Emily, have a daughter, Marygrace. The couple resides in Lawrence.
JASON BROZEK POS. ALMA MATER
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT BUTLER
Jason Brozek comes to KU from Indianapolis, Indiana where he worked in athletic administration and was the head swimming coach at Franklin Central High School and the Flashes Aquatics Club team. While at Franklin Central, he coached athletes to multiple school and club records and sent several swimmers on to compete at the collegiate level. With the Flashes, he was awarded Marion County High School Boys Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year for the 2013-14 season. Prior to the Flashes and Franklin Central, Brozek spent four years as an assistant coach at Butler University where he coached individual medley and distance swimmers, leading two athletes to become all-time school record holders. Brozek swam at Butler University as a studentathlete. He was a Horizon League Conference finalist and part of three school record-setting relay teams, competing primarily in breaststroke and IM. Brozek is originally from Great Bend, Kansas where he was an all-state swimmer and school-record holder. His younger sister, Jessica, swam for KU from 2005-09.