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Tom Kuster, MS, ATC, NASM-PES
Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Medicine
Email: kustertj@jmu.edu
Phone: 540-568-3893
Tom is entering his seventh year on staff within the department of sports medicine at JMU and was promoted in the summer of 2004 to assistant director of sports medicine. He previously served as the head athletic trainer for the James Madison men's basketball team from 1999-2003. In his current appointment, Tom will be directing and coordinating sport medicine services for the JMU baseball, and men's and women's gymnastics programs.
Tom earned his undergraduate degree in health sciences with a concentration in athletic training from JMU in 1995. He later served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at West Virginia University where he received a master of science degree in Athletic Training in 1997. While at WVU, Tom was the educational graduate assistant for their nationally recognized undergraduate athletic training curriculum program and also served as the athletic trainer for the men's soccer team.
Prior to coming back to JMU, Tom was the head athletic trainer and lecturer at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N. C. At Pfeiffer, Tom was responsible for directing the overall sports medicine services for 19 Division II athletic teams, administering the university's athletic insurance program, and teaching within the exercise science/sports medicine curriculum.
Since his return to JMU, Tom has been actively involved in the athletic training program. He has been a guest lecturer on several occasions for JMU's CAAHEP accredited athletic training curriculum program speaking on such topics as emergency preparedness and planning, lower extremity biomechanics and gait analysis, and shoulder biomechanics and evaluation. Tom serves as the liaison for the Virginia Athletic Trainer's Association to the College/University Athletic Trainers Committee. In addition, Tom is a member of JMU's Clinical Education Advisory Board.
Tom resides in Harrisonburg.
