VESTAL, N.Y. – The Binghamton Sports Medicine Department has announced that Samantha Brown and Erin Craig have been added to the staff. Brown, who will serve as an Associate Athletic Trainer, will work with the Bearcat women’s basketball program and both tennis squads. Craig, meanwhile, will serve as an Assistant Athletic Trainer and work with the softball program.
“The Sports Medicine Staff is very excited to have Samantha and Erin join our team,” Director of Sports Medicine & Performance Chris Downey said. “They both bring excellent experience and youthful knowledge that strengthens our team and overall will benefit the student-athletes’ quality of health care.”
Brown arrives from Bard College (located in Red Hook, N.Y.), where she had worked since 2019. While there, she served as an Assistant Athletic Trainer and worked with the cross country, volleyball, women’s basketball, track & field and men’s lacrosse programs.
Prior to her time at Bard College, Brown was an Intern Athletic Trainer at Wisconsin during the 2018-19 academic year. She worked with the cross country, tennis, soccer, women’s basketball and outdoor track & field programs.
Craig, meanwhile, arrives from Elmira College, where she was an Assistant Athletic Trainer since 2018. Her main sport assignments were baseball and soccer and she also oversaw four Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainers.
From 2015-17, Craig was a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer at SUNY Cortland. Her primary sports were men’s soccer, field hockey and women’s lacrosse.
Brown and Craig join a Binghamton Sports Medicine Staff, which now includes 6 full-time Athletic Trainers, 3 part-time Athletic Trainers, Mental Health Specialist, Program Assistant, and several Team Physicians.
