NATA Hall of Fame Inductee for 1999
Karen "Toby" Toburen has been an athletic training educator and program director for most of her professional career. She is currently Professor and Department Head of the Department of Sports Medicine and Athletic Training at Southwest Missouri State University and previously was Professor and Athletic Training Program Director at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse. Toburen currently serves as chair of the NATA Convention Committee, Vice-Chair of the JRCAT, and is a member of the Continuing Education Committee. She was a member of the NATA Education Task Force, the Professional Education Committee, and previously served as program committee chair for the Convention Committee. Toburen was selected to receive the Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished Educator Award and the NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. In 1988, she served as an athletic trainer for the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea and has had extensive international travel experience as an athletic trainer with USA women’s basketball. She was inducted into the UW-LaCrosse Wall of Fame in recognition for her coaching career with women’s basketball and field hockey and was the first active coach to be elected president of the Wisconsin Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Toburen, a native of Greenwood, Wisconsin, received her BS and MS from UW-LaCrosse and a doctorate of education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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