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Bucknell Athletic Training Staff
Assistant Athletic Director Mark Keppler, now in his 22nd year as Bucknell's head athletic trainer, oversees Bucknell's athletic training and sports medicine program. Keppler coordinates the work of six professional staff members, a graduate assistant, an intern and a dedicated group of student assistants. The head trainer at Carnegie Mellon University for 11 years before coming to Bucknell, Keppler is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and is both state- and nationally-certified. From 1982-84 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Athletic Training Society, and from 1984-97 he served with the Athletic Training Advisory Commission to the State Board of Physical Therapy. Keppler is a 1973 graduate of Florida State University and holds a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After working with the football program for his first three years at Bucknell, Keppler moved to the field house training room to coordinate the athletic training office for the entire athletic department. In the fall of 1999, he once again took over as the primary football trainer, in addition to running the athletic training office. Keppler also serves as the primary athletic trainer for spring football, and he supervises off-season rehabilitation programs for any injured Bison football players. Keppler and his wife, Wanda, reside in Lewisburg and are the parents of two daughters, Sarah and Reta.
Tiffany Lebengood is in her ninth year as the Associate Athletic Trainer. Originally from Reading, Pa., she graduated from Salisbury State University with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Physical Education. In 1994 she graduated from Mississippi State University with a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology. After graduate school, Lebengood became the Head Athletic Trainer at Mississippi University for Women for three-and-a-half years. She moved back to Pennsylvania in 1998 to become an assistant athletic trainer at Bucknell. Presently she is working with field hockey, men's and women's swimming and baseball teams. She is in charge of coordination and supervision of the Sports Medicine Center and is responsible for all facets of the training room budget and the sports medicine web page.
After two years as an associate athletic trainer at Mercer University, Rachel Green arrived at Bucknell in the summer of 2007 and works with the men's soccer team as well as the women's basketball squad. A 2003 cum laude graduate of Evansville, Green completed her master's degree in applied physiology and kinesiology from Florida in 2005. Over the last four summers Green, who is a member of a number of athletic training associations, including the National Athletic Trainers' Association, has been the head athletic trainer at the Carolina Soccer Camp.
Brian Scorsone is in his fourth year on the Bucknell Sports Medicine staff. He is a 1997 graduate of Ithaca College. He received his bachelor's of science degree in exercise science/athletic training. After graduation Scorsone worked at SUNY-Geneseo for three years as an assistant athletic trainer. In 2000 he went back to school for his master's degree in kinesiology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He was a graduate assistant athletic trainer and worked with football and men's soccer. Before coming to Bucknell, Scorsone worked for Geisinger/Health South in Daville, Pa., and covered a local high school. He is a native of Geneseo, N.Y., and works with the Bison men's basketball and softball teams.
Bringing not only his athletic training expertise, but also an international flavor to Bucknell Athletic Training staff, Tarsici began his tenure as the resident athletic trainer in 2004. A native of Romania and a 2004 graduate of Penn State University, Tarsici works closely with the volleyball and men's lacrosse teams. Tarsici earned a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology with an option in athletic training, from PSU. He and his wife reside in Lewisburg.
Jason Taylor is originally from Athens, Pa. He is in his second year as the Outsourced Athletic Trainer. He has recently been employed by Geisinger HealthSouth. Taylor attended Lock Haven University and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in athletic training in 2003. He works with the Bison men's and women's water polo, wrestling and men's and women's tennis teams. Taylor resides in Selinsgrove, Pa.
Cassie McFadden has joined the Bucknell athletic training staff as an athletic training resident in 2006 and is now an assistant athletic trainer. A 2005 graduate of King's College in Wilkes Barre, Pa., McFadden is currently working towards her master's degree in adult fitness and exercise science at Bloomsburg University. McFadden worked with a myriad of sports while a student at King's, including baseball, football and men's basketball. A member of the National Athletic Trainer's Association and the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainer's Association, McFadden has volunteered her services at the Special Olympics Pennsylvania State Games and the Eastern Pennsylvania Sectional Games. At Bucknell, McFadden works with the women's soccer, men's and women's diving and women's lacrosse teams.
A Wellsboro, Pa., native who graduated from Lock Haven in 2005, Andrea Harmon returns to Pennsylvania in 2007 to join the Bucknell athletic training staff after spending the previous two years earning her master's degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. While in Hawaii, Harmon was the head athletic trainer at Pac Five Junior High and High Schools. She also volunteered in the University of Hawaii athletic training room in the spring of 2006. Harmon got her start in athletic training as a student assistant at the Lock Haven Rehabilitation Clinic where he helped out-of-season athletes and long-term patients in 2003. She followed that with a stint at Williamsport Area High School where she was responsible for the wrestling, basketball, swimming and cheerleading teams. Additionally, Harmon helped out with the Lock Haven women's basketball, football and men's and women's cross country teams during her undergraduate days. A veteran teacher of CPR, Harmon has spent time working with USA Gymnastics and at the Honolulu Lacrosse Tournament as well. At Bucknell, Harmon works closely with the men's and women's track and field and cross country teams and assists with the football squad. |
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