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Tara Dooley

Tara Dooley officially became the head athletic trainer for Hamline's athletes on July 1, 2015. When she first joined the HU staff in August 2012 as an assistant to Jason Ellenbecker, she already had an impressive resume in this country and abroad. The 2024-25 academic year will be Dooley's 13th at Hamline.
 
Dooley graduated from Winona State in 2006 with a bachelor of science degree in athletic training and also holds certifications as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist and in Functional Movement Screening. 
 
Upon graduation, she worked at Bowling Green University with gymnastics and co-ed cheerleading. In 2007, she was deployed in Iraq as an Intelligence Analyst. She also worked with soldiers at base clinic in her off time assisting with orthopedic injuries and physical fitness improvement. 

In 2008, she returned home and worked for Institute for Athletic Medicine as a casual athletic trainer. A year later, she entered graduate school and a graduate assistantship at University of Minnesota where she worked with men's and women's swimming and diving and men's gymnastics. 
 
Upon graduating in 2011 with a Masters of Arts in Kineseology with an emphasis in sports psychology and minor in Prevention Science, Dooley went back overseas - this time to Kuwait as Base Operations Manager and Security Specialist. There, she worked with soldiers at base clinic in handling orthopedic injuries and physical fitness improvement and also taught fitness classes. 
 
In addition to her duties at Hamline, Dooley also works at Twin Cities Orthopedic as a casual athletic trainer.Â