Sports Medicine & Athletic Training Staff

Lindsay with student trainersThe TUHS Athletic Training program is overseen by Athletic Director Marsha Eubank and is greatly assisted and supported by Athletic Assistant Charlot Frakes.

Lindsay Brown, MS, ATC

Lindsay joined TUHS in the summer of 2006.  Prior to coming to Taft, she received her bachelor’s degree from California Lutheran University and her master’s degree from Georgia State University.  While at GSU, Lindsay was a graduate assistant at The Westminster Schools, a private middle and high school in Atlanta.  Lindsay is a NATA-BOC certified athletic trainer as well as a Red Cross lifeguard/first aid/CPR instructor.  Lindsay is married and lives with her husband, Chad, in Bakersfield with their two cats Reno and Rosie Jean.

Student Athletic Trainers

Priscilla Figueroa is currently a sophomore and this is her first year as a student athletic trainer.  Priscilla likes having responsibility and likes being around everyone in the training room.  She aspires to be a nurse or a physical therapist and would like to attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or UC Santa Barbara when she graduates from high school.  Priscilla loves being involved in school activities and her favorite sport is basketball.

Valerie Michel is currently a junior and this is her first year as a student athletic trainer.  Valerie is involved in the Oil Tech Academy and AVID.  She enjoys being a student trainer because she likes to help people and she also really likes the people that she works with in the training room.  Valerie would like to attend CSU Monterey when she graduates from high school and aspires to be a dentist.

The TUHS Athletic Training Program's ‘honorary trainers’.

Gary Rennie- photographer extrodinaire
Buddah Savaii, Ben Savaii, Joe Laulu, Lio Maino, Tommy Williams-  
TUHS student-athletes who are always willing to lend a helping hand.