Training Staff - Guilford College

Guilford College Athletic Training Staff

• Head Trainer Mary Broos, MS, ATC-L

Broos, a Thomasville, NC, resident is in her 29th year as the head of Guilford's athletic training and sports medicine program.  She became Guilford's first full-time trainer in 1978 and the first woman to head a college sports medicine program in North Carolina.

Broos, was also the first woman inducted into the North Carolina Athletic Trainers Association (NCATA) Hall of Fame, which she entered the in 2002. The Girls and Women in Sports Day Committee awarded her its 1996 Award of Excellence.  NCATA recognized Broos as its 1989 Athletic Trainer of the Year.  She also received the 1998 Heart and Hand Award from Guilford's students.

A 1994 inductee into Guilford's Athletics Hall of Fame, Broos has served on the athletic training staffs for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 1986 World Lacrosse Games, the 1987 U.S. Olympic Festival and the 1987 International Gymnastics Training Camp.  A 1967 graduate of East Carolina University, she was named to the State Superintendent's Sports Medicine Advisory Committee in 1989.

In addition to her athletic training duties at Guilford, Broos spent 12 years on the Davidson County Board of Education and served four years as its chairperson.

• Assistant Trainer Liz Dornbos, MS, ATC/L

Dornbos provided athletic training service to Utah's football team for two years and oversaw the school's staff of undergraduate football athletic trainers.  She also gained clinical experience at the University of Notre Dame's summer athletic camps from 2001-2003 and served as a student athletic trainer during her four years as an undergraduate at Hope College.  While at Hope the former Vicksburg, MI, resident completed internships with Lakewood Family Medicine, Grandville High School and the Holland Community Hospital.  She was a captain and an all-conference soccer player with Hope's soccer team and received the Athletic Training NASPE Outstanding Major of the Year Award.  Dornbos graduated in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in athletic training and received her National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Board of Certification in November, 2002.  Dornbos can be contacted by email at edornbos@guilford.edu or 336-316-2117.

• Assistant Trainer Shannon Swiatkiewicz, MS, ATC/L

Swiatkiewicz earned dean's list honors and worked with Utah's cross country and track and field squads.  She has served as the head athletic trainer at Utah's football camp and Southern Maine's soccer camp.  Also a college soccer captain, Swiatkiewicz graduated from the University of New England in 2002 where she was a dean's list double major in athletic training and exercise science.  She presided over the school's athletic training club and gained experience with Portland (ME) High School, Thornton Academy and Biddeford (ME) High School athletic teams.  The former Enfield, CT, resident has her NATA Board of Certification and is a NATA member.  Swiatkiewicz can be contacted by email at sswiatki@guilford.edu or 336-316-2117.

• Assistant Trainer Kirsten Schrader , MS, ATC/L

Kirsten Schrader has been a certified athletic trainer for 10 years. She received her BS in Exercise and Sport Scienece from UNCG and her MS degree in Exercise and Sport Sciences from University of Nebraska Omaha. She has been the Head Athletic Trainer at Pfeiffer University in Meisenheimer, NC and the Head Athletic Trainer and Assistant Athletic Director for the Queens University of Charlotte. Furthermore, she was the Head Athletic Trainer for Lee College in Baytown, Texas. Kirsten has worked with Guilford athletics for the past 3 seasons, is an instructor for first aid and CPR, stress management in the CCE program at Guilford, and Health and Wellness for Greensboro College. She is an approved clinical instructor for accedited athletic training programs. Kirsten has a husband, Jason and 2 children: Sophie, 6, and Millie, 21 months. Schrader can be contacted by email at kschrade@guilford.edu or 336-316-2117.