Beth Herrell, PSM head athletic trainer at Huntington University, has been named 2023-24 Crossroads League Athletic Trainer of the Year.
Beth was voted Crossroads League Athletic Trainer of the Year by fellow athletic trainers at CL-member schools. The honor was announced July 9 as part of the conference’s end-of-academic-year awards. This is the second year the Crossroads League has awarded the Athletic Trainer of the Year.
"I am honored to be selected by my colleagues as the Crossroads League Athletic Trainer of the Year," Beth says. "I am so fortunate to be able to work alongside so many great athletic trainers throughout the Crossroad League.”
Beth has served as an athletic trainer at Huntington since 2004; and as head athletic trainer, she provides expert care to hundreds of Forester student-athletes each year. Beth primarily covers the men’s basketball, women’s soccer and softball teams.
“I would like to thank all the Huntington University coaches and administration for all their support of the athletic training staff,” Beth adds. “I want to thank and recognize my athletic training team—Chris Burton and Quinn Wiley—for all their hard work and dedication in helping to provide excellent care to every person who steps into the Huntington University athletic training room.
“I want to thank my family for all their love, encouragement and sacrifices for the demands of my career,” she says.
Beth started as an athletic trainer with SportONE in 1992, and joined Parkview Sports Medicine in 2015. She holds an associate degree in physical education from Vincennes University, a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Indiana State University, and a master’s degree in athletic training from Indiana Wesleyan University. Her years of certified athletic training include Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne, the University of Saint Francis and several high schools in the region.
Beth has also taught as an adjunct professor at Huntington and as an adjunct preceptor at Manchester University.
She has also served as chair of the Crossroads League Athletic Training committee, and has been the Crossroad League’s representative on the NAIA Athletic Trainers Association since 2019. Beth is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association and the National Strength & Conditioning Association.
As the official sports medicine provider of Huntington University, PSM provides athletic training, nutrition, sports performance training, Peak Performance, sports physical therapy and other orthopedic services to Forester student-athletes. Learn more at www.parkviewsportsmedicine.com.