University of Toledo Athletics

Gretchen Buskirk is in her seventh year at the University of Toledo and her third as the Rockets’ associate head athletic trainer. Buskirk works with women’s soccer and also supervises the graduate assistant athletic trainer in the sports of baseball, softball and women’s swimming & diving.

Buskirk arrived in Toledo following three years at Furman University in Greenville, SC. During her time with the Paladins, she worked directly with the women’s soccer and women’s basketball programs. She also coordinated the student-assistant scheduling in the Furman athletic training room, as well as spearheading the preventative ACL strengthening program for female student-athletes with video analysis.

Buskirk joined the Paladins’ staff in July 2006 after she received her master’s degree in education from North Carolina State University, while working with the Wolfpack men’s and women’s cross country and track & field team.

A native of Richmond, VA, Buskirk earned her bachelor of science degree from Elon University in 2004, where she worked with the Phoenix’s baseball, men’s soccer, women’s track and field and men’s basketball squads.

Buskirk is a Certified Athletic Trainer and a Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist.  She is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, College Athletic Trainer’s Society, the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association, and Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association and has presented at multiple national sports medicine conferences.   

Buskirk is continuing her studies at Toledo, pursuing a second master’s degree in business administration.