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Tara Dooley

Tara Dooley officially became the head athletic trainer for Hamline University on July 1, 2015, after joining the Pipers’ staff in August 2012 as an assistant athletic trainer. The 2024–25 academic year marks her 13th season with Hamline. Dooley provides primary coverage for the football, gymnastics, and softball programs.

Dooley graduated from Winona State University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training and holds certifications as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist and in Functional Movement Screening.

Upon graduation, she worked at Bowling Green State University with the gymnastics and co-ed cheerleading programs. In 2007, she was deployed to Iraq as an Intelligence Analyst, where she also assisted soldiers at a base clinic with orthopedic injuries and physical fitness improvement.

After returning home in 2008, Dooley worked for the Institute for Athletic Medicine as a casual athletic trainer before beginning graduate school at the University of Minnesota. There, she served as a graduate assistant with the men’s and women’s swimming and diving and men’s gymnastics programs.

She earned her Master of Arts degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology and a minor in prevention science in 2011, then returned overseas to Kuwait as a Base Operations Manager and Security Specialist, continuing to assist soldiers with orthopedic injuries and fitness training while also teaching fitness classes.

Her duties as an athletic trainer at Hamline also include serving as the Athletics Healthcare Administrator. In addition, Dooley works as a casual athletic trainer with Twin Cities Orthopedics.

Outside of her work, Dooley competes in camogie, an Irish stick-and-ball sport, and has won multiple national championships.
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