Post Professional Athletic Training Education Program

The athletic training program of study is designed to provide further didactic and clinical experiences for those who have previously met entry-level requirements for certification as an athletic trainer.

The mission of a post-professional graduate athletic training education program is to expand the depth and breadth of the applied, experiential, and propositional knowledge and skills of entry-level certified athletic trainers, expand the athletic training body of knowledge, and to disseminate new knowledge in the discipline.

The mission of our Post Professional Graduate Athletic Training Education Program is to promote effective clinical decision making skills that will enhance the quality of healthcare provided to the patient throughout their life span.  We also seek to prepare entry level educators and educational leaders with skills, attitudes, and abilities that will promote commitment to teaching and learning.

Old Dominion University's Post Professional Graduate Athletic Training Education Program promotes two areas of distinctiveness:  preparation of the entry level educator, and lower extremity injury management and prevention.

Old Dominion's athletic training curriculum received initial NATA recognition as an approved graduate curriculum in 1980. Our application deadline is February 1st .

For further information please contact:

Bonnie Van Lunen, PhD, ATC
Director, Graduate Athletic Training Program
Old Dominion University
Dept. of ESPER
104C Spong Hall
Norfolk, VA 23529
(0)757-683-3516
(F)757-683-4270
bvanlune@odu.edu