Director of Sports Medicine Robin Gibson is in her 24th year at Florida State and in her fourth season handling the athletic training duties for the women's soccer team. In her three previous seasons with the soccer team, Florida State made three straight appearances in the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight while claiming the ACC regular season title in 2009. She joined the soccer program following a successful tenure with the Seminole softball team which covered 20 seasons. During her time with the softball team, Florida State captured 10 ACC Championships including six straight from 1995 to 2000. The Seminole softball team also made 18 NCAA Regional appearances and six trips to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla. Gibson began her career at Florida State as a graduate assistant and worked her way to her current position of Director of Sports Medicine. Along with maintaining an active role as an athletic trainer for the women's soccer team, Gibson is responsible for the supervision of the athletic training program which involves the evaluation, identification, treatment, care and rehabilitation of the clinical oversight of eleven full-time staff, eight graduate assistant athletic trainers and sixty athletic training students. She also has had the opportunity to collaborate with several athletes at Florida State who have gone on to play professionally as well as in the Olympics and internationally including Becky Edwards, United States (2008), Erika Sutton, Boston Breakers (2009), Yuruby Alicart, Venezuela (2008), Tiffany McDonald, Great Britain (2006), Veronica Wootson, Akron Racers (2007), Jessica van der Linden, Arizona Heat (2004) and Leslie Malerich, Connecticut Brackettes (2005-06). Gibson is a 1985 graduate of San Diego State University where she received a bachelor of science degree in athletic training. While at San Diego State, she served as an athletic training student for two years. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Gibson is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and a Florida licensed athletic trainer. She also completed her first Ironman competition in Lake Placid, NY in July 2011. |
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