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BALTIMORE, Md. (Might 13, 2024) — Morgan State College is happy to announce the appointment of Kathleen “Katie” Olenek as Assistant Athletic Director – Sports activities Drugs. Olenek brings a wealth of expertise in athletic coaching and sports activities drugs to her new position, having served 9 years because the assistant athletic coach at Gettysburg Faculty.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Katie to Morgan State College,” Dr. Tredell Dorsey, Assistant Athletic Director of Sports activities Efficiency at Morgan State. “Her expertise and experience will probably be invaluable to our athletic coaching workers and our student-athletes. We’re assured that she is going to make a major contribution to our division and assist us obtain our targets.”
Olenek is coming from the Space Director of Sports activities Drugs place for the final 2.5 years with Choose Medical, overseeing a number of athletic trainers within the faculty, highschool, and outreach settings. She additionally was chargeable for constructing and sustaining doctor and bodily remedy relationships to develop a strong sports activities drugs group. Most just lately, Olenek was certainly one of two athletic trainers for the World’s Strongest Man competitors in Myrtle Seaside, S.C. this April and Might.
Previous to Choose Medical, Olenek spent nearly 10 years as an athletic coach at Gettysburg Faculty. She was chargeable for the general well being and well-being as the first athletic coach for the Bullets’ volleyball, wrestling, and males’s lacrosse applications. She offered complete athletic coaching providers, together with damage prevention, evaluation, therapy, and rehabilitation. Olenek additionally performed a key position in growing and implementing damage prevention protocols, in addition to managing the athletic coaching price range and workers.
Previous to her contributions at Gettysburg, Olenek held the place of assistant athletic coach at St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania. Throughout her tenure at St. Francis, she displayed her versatility and experience by working with a various vary of athletic groups, together with area hockey, ladies’s lacrosse, ladies’s swimming and diving, volleyball, tennis, and bowling.
Olenek is a 2009 graduate of Lock Haven College the place she acquired her B.S. in well being science. She performed rugby at Lock Haven and served as group captain and membership vice chairman. Following commencement, Olenek labored as a graduate assistant and a health teacher at Bloomsburg College. She accomplished her grasp’s in train science at California College of Pennsylvania in 2011.
Olenek has gained further expertise working with Staff USA squads. She served on the medical group on the 2014 USA Weightlifting American Open in Washington, D.C., and within the winter of 2017 she was the athletic coach for the USA Girls’s Wrestling Cadet tour in Vancouver, Canada.
Olenek is a BOC Licensed Athletic Coach and can be an NASM Licensed Efficiency Enhancement Specialist. Moreover, she is a Licensed American Coronary heart Affiliation BLS for Healthcare Suppliers (CPR/AED and First Support).
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Olenek is delighted to welcome Bella Bradford to Morgan as an athletic coach. Bella’s spectacular background within the area of athletic coaching makes her a useful asset to the group. Previous to becoming a member of Olenek, she held the place of assistant athletic coach at Wagner Faculty, the place she diligently served the soccer, ladies’s lacrosse, triathlon, and males’s and girls’s tennis groups.
She acquired her Bachelor’s diploma in train science from Southern Utah earlier than starting her Grasp’s diploma in athletic coaching at Oregon State.
Whereas with the Beavers, Bradford hung out working with soccer, monitor and area/cross nation, ladies’s rowing, males’s basketball, and most just lately baseball. Over these two years with numerous groups, Bradford helped out with day-to-day rehabilitation of athletes.
The Lancaster, CA, native additionally hung out with Western Oregon College and Santiam Christian Excessive Faculty throughout her graduate faculty years, and Antelope Valley Faculty previous to her time at Southern Utah.
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Morgan State College, based in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified excessive analysis (R2) establishment providing almost 140 educational applications resulting in levels from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland’s Preeminent Public City Analysis College, and the one college to have its complete campus designated as a Nationwide Treasure by the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial scholar physique and seeks to make sure that the doorways of upper schooling are opened as extensive as potential to as many as potential. For extra details about Morgan State College, go to www.morgan.edu.