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Tim Koberna, Head Athletic Trainer
Tim Koberna is in his fourth year as the head trainer of the Wartburg athletic training department. He has been on staff since January of 2006.

Including his current five-year stint with Albion, Koberna has been involved in the athletic training field since his sophomore year at Mount Union College of Ohio. After working three seasons as an undergraduate in the Mount Union athletic department, Koberna moved on to Western Michigan University, gaining his Master's degree in 1992 and staying on with the Broncos until the summer of 2000 as the head hockey trainer and eventual assistant director of medical services and head director of medical services roles where he worked with the football program. Koberna has also been a volunteer at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and with the Detroit Lions' summer camp.

Amanda Ellson, Assistant Athletic Trainer
A former Western Michigan University graduate assistant, Ellson is in her first year at Wartburg in 2009-10. She previously served as an A.T. at Plainwell High School in Michigan from August to June of 2009 while working towards her master's degree in exercise and sports medicine at Western Michigan. Ellson is scheduled to complete her master's degree this December.

Her resume also includes work as a head A.T. of the Kalamazoo Outrage soccer club of the United Soccer League from May through July of 2008 and May through June of 2009 as well as working with the Michigan High School Athletics Association girls state tennis tournament, the Michigan Blind Athletic Association, the Kalamazoo Outlaws semi-professional football club, and the United States Tennis Association's ages 16 to 18 boys junior nationals in Kalamazoo.

Steffen

Tracy Steffen is in her second year as an assistant trainer in the Wartburg athletic training department.

Steffen came to Wartburg after serving as a certified athletic trainer at Liberty Center High School in Liberty Center, Ohio, and Napoleon Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine of Napoleon, Ohio, last year. She was also a graduate assistant at Toledo University of Ohio from 2005-07 and a student trainer at the University of Northern Iowa from 2002-05. A native of Dyersville, Steffen earned her bachelor of arts in athletic training from UNI in May of 2005 and her masters of science in kinesiology from Toledo University last May.

Important forms/policies for returning/first-year athletes:
* Physical form (XLS)
* Student-athlete insurance form (RTF)

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