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The women's basketball athletic training staff is headed by Associate Athletic Trainer Paul Schmidt, who is in his seventh season at Illinois and his 19th year working in college athletics. The Lombard, Ill., native spent four years as the head athletic trainer at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., before coming to Illinois in August 2006. Prior to that, he spent eight years working as an athletic trainer at Syracuse University.
Schmidt received his B.S. in physical education from Northern Illinois University in 1992 before spending one year as an athletic trainer at the High Plains Sports Medicine Clinic in Hays, Kan.
He then headed to Syracuse to pursue a master's degree and work as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the Orange sports programs. Schmidt earned his M.S. in exercise physiology from Syracuse University in 1996 and spent the next six years there as an assistant athletic trainer.
Schmidt is an Illinois State Licensed Athletic Trainer, is an American Red Cross Certified Instructor for First Aid, CPR & AED, and is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Performance Enhancement Speicalist. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and the Illinois Athletic Trainers Association.
Updated April 2012
