Bowling Green State University Athletics
Boersma Named Director of Sports Medicine/Head Athletic Trainer
August 01, 2005 | General
Aug. 1, 2005
Bowling Green, Ohio - BGSU Director of Athletics Paul Krebs has announced that Doug Boersma will add the title of Director of Sports Medicine to his duties as Head Athletic Trainer for the Falcons.
"This title change reflects Doug's exemplary leadership skills and his involvement in an administrative capacity on various campus committees dealing with the health and well being of our student-athletes as well as the maintenance and confidentiality of medical records," said Krebs. "We are thrilled with Doug's ability to lead our athletic training room and are confident that he will continue to represent our department with the utmost professionalism."
Boersma came to BGSU in the summer of 2003 after serving as an assistant athletic trainer at Notre Dame since August 1999. He is responsible for the overall health care of all intercollegiate student-athletes at BGSU as well as the overall development, supervision and management of athletic training room policies and procedures. He also is responsible for the supervision of three full-time staff members and three graduate assistants as well as all student athletic trainers in clinical and game/practice situations.
At Notre Dame, Boersma worked closely with the Irish football program and oversaw the day-to-day training needs of the men's ice hockey program as well as men's soccer and lacrosse during his four years. He also gained experience as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Kentucky and as a student athletic trainer at Purdue. At UK, Boersma worked directly with the football and women's gymnastics programs. At Purdue, the Highland, Ind., native worked with the men's basketball, football, baseball and women's tennis teams.
Boersma earned his degree in athletic training from Purdue in 1997 and also earned his master's degree in health promotion from Kentucky in 1999. The 30-year old native of Highland, Ind., and his wife, Cari, have two daughters, McKenna, born in December of 2002, and Ashlyn who was born last January.
