2013-14 Bucknell Men's Basketball Media Guide - Bucknell Athletics

Bucknell’s athletic training staff, headed by Mark Keppler, provides
outstanding medical care for each of Bucknell’s student-athletes. In 2003,
Keppler and his staff moved into a brand new, state-of-the-art athletic
training room as part of the Kenneth G. Langone Athletics and Recreation
Center design. There is also a fully-equipped athletic training facility in
Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, adjacent to the football team locker
room, and satellite training rooms at Sojka Pavilion and Holmes Stadium.
The philosophy of the Bucknell sports medicine team is a commitment
to providing the best care for Bison student-athletes. Its injury and rehab
protocols are developed to help decrease athletics-related injuries, increase
injury recovery time, and combine strength and flexibility, endurance and
sport-specific functional activities.
Every injured Bucknell student-athlete is attended by an athletic
trainer at the time the injury occurs. Each of Bucknell’s professional staff
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assOCIATE director of athletics,
head athletic trainer
Associate Athletic Director Mark Keppler, now in his 28th
year as Bucknell’s head athletic trainer, oversees Bucknell’s athletic
training and sports medicine program. Keppler coordinates
the work of seven professional staff members and a dedicated
group of student assistants.
The head trainer at Carnegie Mellon University for 11 years
before coming to Bucknell, Keppler is a member of the National
Athletic Trainers Association and is both state- and nationallycertified.
From 1982-84 he served as president of the Pennsylvania
Athletic Training Society, and from 1984-97 he served with the
Athletic Training Advisory Commission to the State Board of
Physical Therapy. He is currently the Convention Chair for PATS
and was inducted into that organization’s Hall of Fame in June
2006. In the spring of 2013, Keppler was named Trainer of the
Year by the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Football
Foundation.
Keppler is a 1973 graduate of Florida State University and
holds a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
After working with the football program for his first three
years at Bucknell, Keppler moved to the fieldhouse training room
to coordinate the athletic training office for the entire athletic
department. In the fall of 1999, he once again took over as the primary
football trainer, in addition to running the athletic training
office. Keppler also serves as the primary athletic trainer for spring
football, and supervises off-season rehabilitation programs for
any injured Bison football players.
Keppler and his wife, Wanda, reside in Lewisburg and are
the parents of daughters Sarah and Reta.
trainers are state and nationally certified, and they are assisted on-site by a quality team of student athletic trainers. The care for all Bucknell
students ultimately falls under the direction of the director of the University’s student health services. Athletes sustaining serious injuries
requiring immediate attention in a hospital setting are sent to the emergency room of the Evangelical Community Hospital, located just
two miles from the Bucknell campus.
PARTNERSHIP WITH GEISINGER SPORTS MEDICINE
In August 2005, Bucknell director of athletics and recreation John Hardt and Geisinger chief of sports medicine Daniel Feldmann, MD,
announced a partnership that makes Geisinger Sports Medicine the exclusive sports medicine provider for Bucknell University Athletics.
Geisinger’s team of orthopaedic specialists, certified in a wide array of specialties, is responsible for the care and treatment of more than
700 Division I student-athletes participating in varsity athletics at Bucknell.
Geisinger Health System is an integrated, physician-led healthcare services organization that serves more than two million residents
throughout central and northeastern Pennsylvania. It includes a 650-member multi-specialty physician practice, a tertiary/quaternary
medical center and an acute-care community
hospital, adult and pediatric
trauma centers, a nationally acclaimed
alcohol and chemical dependency treatment
center, heart and cancer institutes,
a neurosciences program, two research
centers, 41 community practice offices
and one of the largest not-for-profit
rural HMOs in the country.
In addition to meeting the oncampus
needs of the Bucknell studentathletes,
Geisinger has a comprehensive,
multi-disciplinary sports medicine
facility at GMC Outpatient Surgery
Center—Woodbine Lane in Danville.
This one-stop complex features an open
MRI for on-site diagnostics, a therapy
pool and facilities for athlete rehabilitation.
For more on the Geisinger Sports
Medicine program and staff, please
visit: www.geisinger.org/consumers/
services/sports_med/index.html
Mark Keppler
Assoc. AD/Head
Athletic Trainer
Aya Morioka
Assistant Athletic
Trainer
Paul Secondi
Assistant Athletic
Trainer (MBB)
Cheri Orndorff
Athletic Training
Clinical Assistant
Kristin Klinger
Associate Athletic
Trainer
Pamela Staso
Assistant Athletic
Trainer
Kaitlin Kelly
Assistant Athletic
Trainer
Fafa Tsikata
Assistant Athletic
Trainer
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Bucknell Sports Medicine
bucknell sports medicine personnel
Jamie Lavis
Assistant Athletic
Trainer
Dr. Daniel Feldmann
Geisinger Chief of Sports
Medicine
Emily Madrak
Assistant Athletic
Trainer