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Athletic Trainer Finder is a weekly newsletter for athletic trainers—curated jobs, market insight, and straight talk on pay, roles, and working conditions.

Built by ATs. No fluff. Just value AT Finder is a weekly newsletter designed to simplify the job search for Certified Athletic Trainers. We know that finding the right role often means checking a dozen different websites. We are here to change that. We aggregate job listings from across the industry—High School, Collegiate, Pro, Military, Industrial and everything in between. We deliver all of the

m weekly in a single, easy-to-read email. Our goal is simple: To build the most helpful resource for the Athletic Training community regarding the job market. For ATs: Stop searching, start receiving. Let the jobs come to you. For Employers: Get your opening seen by a dedicated audience of professionals. Mission: We help you find ATs. We help ATs find you. Subscribe to the newsletter to join us as we grow.

09/09/2026

I’m looking for a few employers who are struggling to fill an athletic training position.

Over the last several months, I’ve talked with employers across the country dealing with the same problem: the job is posted, applications are limited, and they’re not sure what else to try.

So I’m testing something new through Athletic Trainer Finder.

The Recruitment Accelerator is now in Beta.

Instead of simply posting another job, I want to take a more hands-on approach.

For a limited number of positions, AT Finder will:

• Evaluate the position and how it stacks up in the current AT job market
• Look at compensation and identify potential barriers to the search
• Use AT Finder’s Talent Network and audience to identify potential candidates
• Conduct targeted outreach to athletic trainers who may be a fit
• Facilitate introductions when there is mutual interest
• Share what we’re hearing from candidates so employers can adjust their strategy when needed

I’m intentionally keeping this first group small. The goal is to learn what actually moves the needle for employers struggling to hire athletic trainers and build a recruitment process specifically for our profession.

Not every position will be accepted.

I’ll review each opportunity, including compensation, flexibility, location and the current hiring situation, to determine whether I believe AT Finder has a realistic path to helping fill the position.

If you're struggling to hire an athletic trainer and would like your position considered for the Recruitment Accelerator Beta, submit your position at the link in comments

And if you know an employer sitting on a difficult AT vacancy, send this their way.

09/08/2026

After 10 years building a department, he had to walk away.

That’s the story I wrote about in this week’s Athletic Trainer Finder newsletter.

Benjamin Lewis spent a decade as the Head Athletic Trainer at Lakeside High School in Arkansas. In his resignation, he described medical clearance decisions being bypassed, heat policies not being followed, and administrators overruling medical decisions.

Eventually, he left.

We spend a lot of time talking about salary, benefits, workload and staffing when we evaluate athletic training jobs.

We should.

But medical autonomy has to be part of that conversation too.

A job can pay well and still be a bad athletic training job if you aren’t actually allowed to practice as an athletic trainer.

This week I get into the story, what ATs should be asking employers before taking a job, and why the policy on paper matters a lot less than what happens when someone doesn’t like the medical decision.

Also this week:
158 new athletic trainer jobs
💰 Indy Ignite Head AT/Director of Player Health: $85K–$110K
💰 Montclair State Assistant Professor: $69K–$108K
💰 Tulsa Oilers/OSU-CHS: $65K–$70K
⭐ Three new featured industrial openings from Moore Wellness Systems

And for employers: I’m opening 3 pilot spots for something new I’m testing — the Athletic Trainer Finder Recruitment Accelerator — specifically for organizations that have been struggling to fill an AT position and are willing to make changes if the market tells us the position isn’t competitive.

This week’s newsletter is brought to you by Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc. Use code ATCFinder10 to get 10% off sitewide (Restrictions apply).

https://www.atcfinder.com/post/158-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-tuesday-september-8-2026-after-10-years-building-a-department-he

08/31/2026

If you haven’t read the new paper from Julie Cavallario, Cailee Welch Bacon, and Chad Starkey on athletic training compensation, you should.

I think it’s one of the most important pieces of literature to come out for the future of the profession in a long time.

It asks a pretty uncomfortable question: Are we part of the problem or part of the solution?

The paper gets into stagnant salaries, negotiation, benchmarking, salary transparency, and the systems that have helped keep compensation where it is.

One recommendation really stood out to me: salary information has to reach employers, not just athletic trainers.

That’s a big part of what AT Finder can become.

AT Finder can be a vessel to help solve that problem by creating more visibility around what employers are paying, what competing organizations are offering, where jobs are sitting open, and where the market is starting to move.

Because another part of this conversation matters too:

The supply-and-demand equation is changing.

I see it every week. Jobs stay open. Positions get reposted. Employers are competing for the same athletic trainers, and entire settings are increasingly competing for the same workforce.

That creates leverage.

If employers can see the market more clearly, they can build better positions. If athletic trainers can see it more clearly, they can make better decisions and negotiate from a stronger position.

That’s where I see AT Finder fitting in:

More transparency. Better market information. Better decisions on both sides.

I wrote more about the paper, what I think it gets right, and why the changing labor market may finally start putting real pressure on athletic training salaries.

Plus: 102 new athletic trainer jobs. 71% include salary information.

Among them:

💰 Seattle Children’s: $88,786–$133,180
💰 Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist: $68,000–$103,000
💰 Army Reserve H2F in Honolulu: $95,000–$120,000
💰 Donna ISD: up to $89,377
💰 Moore Wellness Systems near Cincinnati: $65,000–$70,000

And there are a few salaries this week that deserve a much harder conversation.

08/24/2026

What happens when the solution to an athletic trainer shortage becomes… look at other professions to fill the void?

That question isn’t hypothetical.

A LinkedIn post from an occupational health nurse recently suggested that because athletic trainer coverage can be difficult to find, organizations should consider registered nurses for sideline medical coverage.

I think that misses the bigger issue.

This is not a nurse-versus-athletic-trainer argument. Nurses are highly skilled healthcare professionals, and there are plenty of environments where our professions should work side by side.

But overlapping clinical skills do not make healthcare professions interchangeable.

Think about an emergency department.

An athletic trainer may be exceptionally qualified to evaluate the ankle injury that walks through the door. But think about everything else that may happen in that ED that the nurse is educated, trained, and credentialed to handle that simply is not part of an athletic trainer’s professional role.

Nobody would look at the overlap in our skills and say, “Well, athletic trainers can evaluate patients too, so let's use them to fill the nursing shortage.”

That would completely ignore what the job actually requires.

So why would we apply that logic in reverse on the sideline?

If an organization needs an athletic trainer, maybe the first question shouldn’t be, “Who else can we put there?”

Maybe it should be:

Is the compensation competitive?
Are the hours reasonable?
Is the workload realistic?
Is the opportunity actually worth taking?

I wrote more about the argument — and why I think the solution is simpler than it looks — in this week’s Athletic Trainer Finder newsletter.

Plus, 292 new athletic trainer jobs from across the country were added to the job board this week.

Are nurses coming for the sideline?

Read this week’s edition and tell me where you land.

08/17/2026

91 new athletic trainer jobs were added to the Athletic Trainer Finder job board this week.

But the number I might be happiest about?
80%+ included salary information — one of the strongest transparency rates we’ve seen all year.

A few things that stood out this week:
💰 Baltimore County Public Schools posted a 12-month secondary school AT position at $74,080–$145,090.

✅ Coweta County Schools, who we featured earlier this summer in our In the Seat series, has officially filled its final athletic training opening ahead of fall sports.

👀 Idaho State posted a 9-month Assistant Athletic Trainer position at $34,312–$37,312. I had some thoughts on that one.

🆕 And, entirely because people have been asking for it, PRN postings are now available on AT Finder.

We’re not becoming a staffing company.
We’re not vetting ATs, assigning coverage, or guaranteeing that shifts get filled.
We’re simply creating another place for organizations looking for PRN athletic trainers and ATs looking for extra work to find each other.
And for now, it’s completely free for organizations and athletic trainers to use.

91 new jobs.
Some really good ones. Some that deserve a harder conversation.
And another way for ATs and employers to connect.

What stands out to you this week?
👇 Read the full breakdown in this week’s AT Finder newsletter.

https://www.atcfinder.com/post/91-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-monday-august-17-2026-a-145k-secondary-school-ceiling-prn-come

08/10/2026

There will always be another practice. Another game. Another season. Your kids only get one childhood.

My daughter turns one today.

Becoming a dad hasn’t made me love athletic training any less.

But it has absolutely changed how I value my time.

A night game is also a night away from home. A Saturday tournament means someone else is handling everything. And when our schedules change, they don’t just affect us — they affect our families too.

This week’s AT Finder newsletter is a little more personal. I wrote about being an athletic trainer, becoming a parent, the incredible support it takes at home, and why I think our definition of “commitment” to this profession is allowed to evolve.

Plus, 147 new athletic trainer jobs — including some of the strongest secondary school compensation we’ve seen this year.

For the AT parents out there:

Did becoming a parent change the way you looked at your career?

Read this week’s newsletter:
https://www.atcfinder.com/post/147-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-monday-august-10-2026-there-will-always-be-another-game-your-ki

08/03/2026

The closer we get to fall sports, the more expensive an unfilled athletic trainer position becomes.

Practices are starting. Athletes are arriving. Emergency action plans need to be updated.

And some schools are still trying to hire an athletic trainer.

At this point, an open position is no longer just a vacancy.

It is becoming an operational problem.

That may give qualified athletic trainers more leverage than they realize.

This week’s Athletic Trainer Finder newsletter includes 109 new athletic trainer jobs, but the bigger conversation is about timing.

When an employer still needs someone in August, candidates should be asking:

What flexibility is there in the salary range?

Is there a sign-on bonus?

Can the schedule or sport assignment be adjusted?

What work has accumulated while the position has been open?

Most importantly, an employer’s urgency should not become your emergency.

The Athletic Trainer Finder Talent Network also crossed 100 athletic trainers, and employers are beginning to reach out specifically because they want access to the network.

That changes the conversation.

Have you ever negotiated a better salary, schedule or benefit because an employer needed someone quickly?

Brought to you by Healthy Roster.

Read this week’s newsletter and view all 109 jobs:

http://atcfinder.com/post/109-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-monday-august-3-2026-the-hiring-window-is-closing-that-may-give

07/27/2026

Some schools have had athletic trainer positions open for months.

They keep reposting the same job.

Same salary.
Same workload.
Same staffing model.

At what point do we stop blaming the applicant pool and start admitting the position itself may no longer work?

The athletic training job market has changed. ATs have more options, and many are finding better pay, better schedules and better balance outside traditional college and secondary school settings.

For some schools, the answer may not be another repost.

It may be rebuilding the staffing model altogether.

Could one AT focus on rehabilitation?
Could another be scheduled around practices and competition coverage?
Could a remote athletic trainer handle appropriate concussion follow-ups, rehabilitation check-ins and care coordination across multiple schools?

And if a school sponsors 20 teams but can only hire two ATs, is that really an athletic training shortage—or an underfunded healthcare model?

This week’s AT Finder newsletter digs into that question, along with 108 new athletic trainer jobs added to the Athletic Trainer Finder job board, including Cornell’s Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine position.

Brought to you by Healthy Roster!

Read it here: https://www.atcfinder.com/post/108-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-monday-july-27-2026-for-some-schools-it-may-be-time-to-rebuild

07/20/2026

Are colleges starting to use non-certified “interns” because they can’t find athletic trainers?
I
’ve now come across this twice.

In one conversation with a small college, I was told they were using recent athletic training graduates who had not yet passed the BOC exam as “interns” working under certified ATs.

Then I saw a similar arrangement mentioned separately on Facebook.
Two examples don’t make a trend.

But it raises some serious questions.

Once someone has graduated and is no longer an athletic training student, what exactly are they allowed to do before becoming certified and licensed?
And there is another side of this that may matter even more:
What liability does the supervising athletic trainer take on?
In states like Virginia and Ohio, supervising an unlicensed individual does not simply extend your scope of practice to them. The credentialed AT may remain responsible for what that individual does — and there can be professional consequences when unlicensed personnel perform duties they are not authorized to perform.

My suspicion is that this is not primarily about employers trying to cut corners.
I think some programs simply cannot fill their athletic training positions and are becoming increasingly creative out of necessity.
But necessity doesn’t create a scope of practice.
And no AT should unknowingly put their own credential on the line because an employer calls someone an “intern.”

I dig into this more in this week’s AT Finder update, along with 135 new athletic trainer jobs and my picks for the opportunities actually worth a closer look — including several where cost of living completely changes how I view the salary.

👇 Check out this week’s Newsletter at: https://www.atcfinder.com/post/135-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-monday-july-20-2026-are-colleges-starting-to-use-non-certified
Job board: www.atcfinder.app/jobs

And I really want to hear from the profession on this one:
Have you seen recent AT graduates who have not yet passed the BOC being hired as “interns”? What were they actually allowed to do?
Drop your experience in the comments. I have a feeling there is more to this than we realize.

07/13/2026

Last week I got one wrong.

I featured The Stone Clinic in San Francisco based on their benefits package. An AT with direct Bay Area experience reached out with context I didn’t have — local market norms, COL reality, and some reported history with the role. I published a full correction.

That’s the job.

This week: 147 new athletic trainer jobs and one of the most unusual AT roles I’ve ever seen on this board.

Fighter pilot human performance.

Yes, really. Full breakdown in the picks.

Also this week — I want to give a shoutout to Alicia Yamamoto, DAT, LAT, ATC for building the Concierge Athletic Trainer Network (conciergeathletictrainernetwork.com).

A directory connecting the general public directly with BOC-certified ATs in private practice. No referral. No middleman. No platform fee.

Every AT who lists on this platform is putting a direct dollar value on what we do — and asking the market to recognize it. That’s one of the ways we move this profession forward.

The picks this week:

💰 $69,600–$124,200 — ATH Trainer 3, UC Davis, CA
💰 $80,000–$90,000 + stipend — Director/Assoc Professor AT Program, SUNY Oneonta NY (PSLF eligible)
💰 $65,000–$75,000 — Performing Arts AT, Dean College, Franklin MA
💰 $60,000–$68,000 + relocation — AT Track & Field/XC, University of Vermont, Burlington VT
💰 $65,000–$70,000 — AT Onsite, Concentra, Blue Springs MO
💰 Fighter Pilot Human Performance AT — Threat Management Group, Aurora CO

AT Finder Talent Network had its first successful connection last week.

The network only works if ATs are in it. Free. Always will be: www.atcfinder.app

Edition 28: https://www.atcfinder.com/post/147-new-athletic-trainer-jobs-monday-july-13-2026-i-got-one-wrong-last-week

Mentions: Alicia Yamamoto, DAT, LAT, ATC, Danielle York, MEd, ATC, CEAS III, Tyler Green, Matt Bain MS, ATC, PES, SMTC,

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