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Women's Tennis
- Title:
- Athletic Trainer
Russ Steves is the Coordinator of Physical Therapy at Princeton as well as the athletic trainer assigned to men's soccer, women's track and field and women's tennis. As PTs, John Furtado and Steves run a free clinic out of Dillon Gym from undergrads and grad students who need rehab. Steves started working at Princeton in the fall of 1985 and considers himself very fortunate to have been hired by Princeton's former head athletic trainer and Hall of Famer, Dick Malacrea. Steves is a 1983 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BS in physical therapy. After working for 10 years at Princeton, he attended the University of Virginia for his Masters in Education degree, graduating in 1997. Following that, he was able to resume working at Princeton.
In addition to his Princeton duties, Steves has given numerous presentations on sports medicine topics such as, sports hernias, foot biomechanical evaluation, hamstring strains, and evidence-based medicine. He wrote the introductory article on evidence-based medicine for the Journal of Athletic Training, which won that journal's non-research article of the year. Steves also wrote the chapter on physical modalities for Netter's Sports Medicine handbook for physicians.
The long association with Princeton Athletics has given Steves wonderful opportunities. He has been able to travel to Germany, England, and Italy with the soccer team and to China with the track team. In addition, Steves has had the chance to host national soccer teams here at Princeton. In 1994, Princeton hosted Norway and Bulgaria train on the soccer facilities in preparation for the U.S.-hosted World Cup. More recently, Princeton helped the U.S. national team with their training camp at Princeton leading up to the South African World Cup in 2010.
A native of Waterford, Pa., Russ lives in Princeton.
