Bowling Green State University Athletics
Willey, Young Named To Assistant Trainer Posts
June 28, 2002 | General
June 28, 2002
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University department of athletics has named a pair of full-time assistant athletic trainers, director of athletics Paul Krebs and head athletic trainer Ed Orr have announced. Jon Willey and Chad Young will join Orr's staff.
Willey joins the Falcon program from Washington State University, where he has spent the past three years. He began at WSU in August of 1999 as an intern/assistant athletic trainer, and most recently served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer. Willey's duties at BGSU will include overseeing training responsibilities for the Falcon hockey program.
In his time in Pullman, Willey has been the head trainer for the Cougar track and field and cross country teams. As the G.A., he assisted with the WSU football program, supervised student trainers and developed and maintained a web site for the WSU Athletic Medicine program. Additionally, he is currently designing a web site for Olympic track and field athlete Dan O'Brien.
Willey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in athletic training from Taylor (Ind.) University in 1999. This past May, he received a Masters of Education degree from WSU.
Young is no stranger to the Falcon program, having served on the training staff in various capacities since 1996. Young spent the 2001-02 academic year working as an assistant athletic trainer at BGSU under a non-student letter of appointment.
Young has served as the primary athletic trainer for the BGSU men's basketball program over the past two years, and also has overseen the training responsibilities for baseball, tennis and volleyball.
Young began as a student trainer in the BGSU department of athletics in 1996, and later served as a graduate assistant trainer before assuming full-time duties. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in health education with a minor in athletic training from BGSU in 1999, and received his Master of Education degree in developmental kinesiology in August of 2001.
