Middlebury College has announced the hiring of Bethany Bernard and Matt Cutts as assistant athletic trainers in the Sports Medicine Department. Bernard comes to Middlebury from Gwynedd Mercy, where she served in a similar position for the past two years, while Cutts was the head athletic trainer at Pinnacle High School in Phoenix, Arizona.
“I am very excited and incredibly honored to have the opportunity to work at Middlebury College,” said Bernard. “I have heard so many amazing things about the school, its athletic program and the people. I can’t wait to be a part of such an outstanding institution and community.”
While at Gwynedd Mercy, Bernard worked with multiple programs including women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field as well as and women’s lacrosse. She is a graduate of Lynchburg College and received her master’s degree at California University of Pennsylvania.
As an undergraduate at Lynchburg, Bernard was a four-year member of the Hornet field hockey team, winning the Old Dominion Athletic Conference title three times and playing in the NCAA Tournament each year. In the classroom, Bernard was selected to the ODAC’s All-Conference Academic Team each of her four years. Before working at Gwynedd Mercy, Bernard was associated with Commonwealth Orthopedic Associates, where she was contracted as a full-time Athletic Trainer at Alvernia University.
Cutts comes to Vermont from Physiotherapy Associates in Arizona where he was the Head Athletic Trainer at Pinnacle High School. He was responsible for 20 varsity sports and over 750 student-athletes. No stranger to the northeast, Cutts received his undergraduate degree from Keene State College and later earned a master’s from Indiana State University.
“I am excited and eager to begin working alongside the Middlebury College sports medicine staff,” said Cutts. “I am humbled by the opportunity to become a part of such an academically and athletically successful institution.”
Prior to his time in Arizona, Cutts spent two seasons in the National Football League as an intern in the athletic training department with the New England Patriots. He worked for two years at Bryant University in Rhode Island before returning to school for a secondary degree in athletic training.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://athletics.middlebury.edu/general/2015-16/releases/bernardcuttshire