Mark Coberley, MS, LAT, ATC, a graduate of Iowa State University, currently serves as the associate athletic director of sports medicine at his alma mater, a position he earned in 1999 after serving for six years as the university's assistant athletic trainer. His volunteer service began as a member of the Iowa Athletic Trainers' Society Governmental Affairs Committee. He later served as IATS president. Among his roles with NATA, he served as a member of the NATA College/University Athletic Trainers' Committee, now the Intercollegiate Council for Sports Medicine, and the NATA Public Relations Committee. He served on the NATA Board of Directors from 2015-20 as the District Five director and chaired the NATA Political Action Committee. He serves on the Big 12 Conference Medical Aspects of Sport Committee and was chair 2008-11. Coberley was awarded the NCAA's Division I Head Athletic Trainer of the Vear in 2011 and the NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer recognition in 2013. He was inducted into the MAATA Hall of Fame in 2019, and the IATS Hall of Honor in 2014.
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Lorin A. Cartwright, MS, ATC, CA A, has been an advocate for AT education at the secondary school and college/university level. She has written numerous textbooks about the certification process, foundations of athletic training and cultural competency. All were the first of their kind in athletic training, with a few translated into simple Chinese. She was the first woman to be president of GLATA. Cartwright has advanced the profession by serving in various roles on national, regional and state committees. She has served on the NATA Secretary Committee, Ethics Committee, Membership Committee, LGBTO+ Advisory Committee and the Honors and Award Committee. While on the LGBTO+ Advisory Committee, she co-authored, "Considerations for Stressors of Sexual Minority Identity and How it Affects Mental Health for Those Who Identify as LGBTO+." At the district level, she was a consultant to the Diversity Committee, an active member of the Women in Athletic Training Committee and served as secretary-treasurer. The Michigan governor appointed her to the Women in Sports Leadership Committee and Michigan Board of Athletic Training. At the state level, she co-chaired the DEi Committee, Secondary Schools Committee, Governmental Affairs Committee; and chaired the Education Committee and Public Relations Committee. Her honors include the Ann Arbor Pioneer Athletic Hall of Fame, Michigan Athletic Trainers' Society Hall of Fame, GLATA Golden Pinnacle Award, NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer recognition, NATA Athletic Training Service Award and Gail Weldon Award of Excellence.
Rick Burkholder, MS, ATC, a second-generation AT, is currently the vice president of sports medicine and performance for the Kansas City Chiefs. He is starting his 11th season in Kansas City after spending 14 years as the head athletic trainer with the Philadelphia Eagles. Prior to joining the Eagles in 1999, Burkholder served as an assistant AT at the Pittsburgh Steelers, University of Pittsburgh and University of Arizona. In 2014, he was elected president of Professional Football Athletic Trainers' Society, where he focused on gender equity within PFATS as well as emphasizing the importance of ATs in the secondary school setting. The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society Hall of Fame inductee joins his father, Richard Burkholder, as the only father-son duo to have achieved this honor. Burkholder also received the NATA President's Award, the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer recognition and Athletic Training Service Award. With PATS, he served on various committees as well as the executive board. He has also served on various committees in NATA, the NFL and PFATS, and speaks locally and nationally on a regular basis. The two-time Super Bowl champion was awarded the Cain/Fain NFL Athletic Trainer of the Vear Award in 2022, which is voted on by the NFL team physicians.
Timothy “Westy” Weston, MEd, ATC, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine in 1988 and master’s degree from the University of Maine at Orono in 2004. He is currently in his 13th year as the head athletic trainer and director of sports medicine at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he has been employed since 1992. Weston held leadership positions on the executive board for the Maine Athletic Trainers’ Association (MATA) (1993-2000). He has served as the NATA District One Secretary (2004-12), chair of the NATA District Secretaries’/Treasurers’ Committee (2010-12), EATA Executive Board member (2004-12 and 2014-18), NATAPAC Board of Directors (2010-13), NATA District One Director (2014-18) and NATA Secretary/Treasurer (2016-18). NATA Inter-Association Consensus Statement: The Management of Medications by the Sports Medicine Team co-chair (2018). He has previously served on the New England Small College Athletic Conference Medical Aspects Committee and the Maine Concussion Management Initiative Board of Directors. Weston is currently co-chair for the EATA 75th Anniversary Committee and serves on the editorial boards for the NATA News and the Sports Medicine Legal Digest.
George Roberts, MEd, LAT, ATC, earned his bachelor’s degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and master’s degrees from Slippery Rock University in 1980 and Edinboro University in 1990. Roberts started his career as a teacher and athletic trainer at Titusville Senior High School in 1976 in Titusville, Pennsylvania. In 1985, he moved to the collegiate setting as an associate professor/head athletic trainer until 2016. Since then, Roberts has continued work in various clinics, per diem work and, most importantly, serving on the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society Executive Board. With PATS, he has served as Governmental Affairs Committee chair, northwest representative, president elect, president and, currently, past president. Roberts was active in the U.S. Olympic Committee’s volunteer sports medicine program, serving as a member of the medical staffs for the Summer Olympic Team in 1984 (Los Angeles), 1992 (Barcelona) and the 1983 World University Games (Edmonton, Alberta). In 2010, he was appointed to the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine by Gov. Ed Rendel, serving as vice chair (2011-13).
Robb S. Rehberg, PhD, ATC, NREMT, earned his bachelor’s degree from West Chester University in 1991 and master’s degree from the U.S. Sports Academy in 1999. He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy from Touro University International in 2003. He began his career as an athletic trainer in 1991 at Westwood Regional High School in New Jersey, and currently serves as professor of athletic training and sports medicine at William Paterson University. Rehberg is a Senior Medical Advisor and Coordinator of Gameday Medical Operations for the NFL. He is also a subject matter expert for emergency care for the National Safety Council, president/CEO of Sport Safety International and co-founder of The Rehberg Konin Group. Rehberg’s list of volunteer service is extensive, most notably having served as president of the Athletic Trainers’ Society of New Jersey (2007-09), treasurer for both NATA District Two (2015-20) and the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association (2011-14) and member of the NATA Government Affairs Committee (2020-present). He also served on the NATA Research & Education Foundation Board of Directors (2010-16).
Bart C. Peterson, MSS, LAT, ATC, earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in 1989 and his master’s degree from the U.S. Sports Academy in 1998. Peterson has worked his entire career in the secondary schools, including positions at Campbell County High School (1990-2000) in Gillette, Wyoming, and Palo Verde High Magnet School (2000-present) in Tucson, Arizona. He began serving the athletic training profession early in his career, becoming president of the Wyoming Athletic Trainers’ Association (1992-98). Among his roles at the state, district and national levels, he served as secretary of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers’ Association (2004-10), NATA District Seven director (2010-14) and NATA Research & Education Foundation District Seven director (2014-20). He served on the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainers’ Committee (1998-2004) and returned to the committee to serve as chair (2016-20). Peterson is a 2015 inductee of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame.
Marisa Brunett, MS, LAT, ATC, earned her bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University in 1986 and her master’s degree from Florida State University in 1988. She is currently a senior athletic trainer with ManTech International Corp., working with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Warfighter Wellness Program. Brunett has worked with various patient populations in the clinic, hospital, secondary school, youth sports, Division I and junior college settings. An active member of NATA, Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association and Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida, Brunett has filled various leadership roles throughout her 35 years of service. This includes serving as the NATA vice president (2018-21), NATA District IX Board of Director (2016-21), NATA Finance Committee (2018-20), NATA Public Relations chair (2006-11), SEATA vice-president (2005-10), SEATA Executive Board member (2001-05), ATAF president (2000-05) and vice president (1995-99). She was appointed by the governor to serve on the Florida Department of Health’s Board of Athletic Training, where she served as vice-chair and a member. She has received several service-related awards including induction into the SEATA Hall of Fame in 2011 and ATAF Hall of Fame in 2008.
Scott Anderson, ATC, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1979. In 1987, after seven years with the university as the assistant athletic trainer, Anderson started his nine-year tenure as head athletic trainer at Tulane University. He returned to the University of Oklahoma in 1996 as the Sooners head athletic trainer, a position he held until his retirement in May. Anderson has provided his expertise on research initiatives related to heat stroke in football and exertional sickling in athletes with sickle cell trait, and has collaborated with colleagues in the NCAA and Big 12 Conference on concussion research. Anderson has filled many service roles throughout his career. He co-directed the Inter-Association Task Force on Sickle Cell Trait in Athletes as well as the 2014 and 2016 Summit on Safety in College Football and 2022 Summit on Prevention of Exertional Heat Stroke Death in Football Lineman. He is a member of the Big 12 Conference Medical Aspects of Sport Committee, having served a term as chair, and the Big 12 Conference Medical Professionals Advisory Group. Anderson was inducted into the Oklahoma Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2015.
In 1978, Mark Letendre, ATC, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine at Orono. Letendre started his career as an athletic trainer for the New York Yankees in 1978, and continued his career in Major League Baseball. He is now the advisor to the director of sports medicine and performance-umpire administration for the MLB. Letendre’s list of volunteer service includes inventor-founding member of the Professional Baseball AtCoophletic Trainers’ Society Product Review Symposium (1999-2000); founding chairperson and alumni liaison of the PBATS Alumni Program (2006-16); NATA Political Action Committee chair and charter board member (2007-10 and 2021-present); PBATS 25th Year Anniversary Celebration chair (2007); NATA Clinical/Industrial/Corporate Committee/CEPAT (2008-11);Arizona Athletic Trainers’ Association Public Relations Committee chair (2008-12); Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers’ Association Public Relations Committee chair (2009-11); NATA Public Relations Committee (2009-12); MLB Medical Advisory Committee charter athletic trainer (2013); PBATS MLB & MiLB Service Ring co-chair (2015-16); and NATA Athletic Trainer Service Award Committee (2021).