Carole Banda
Director of Olympic Sports Medicine
Carole Banda, Director of Olympic Sports Medicine, enters her eighth season at U of L. Based at the Cardinal Park athletic training facility, she is responsible for daily sports medicine operation for 20 of U of L's sports.
Supervising six assistant athletic trainers and one graduate assistant, Banda has travel responsibilities with women's basketball. She has coordinated sports medicine coverage for conference championships in men's basketball, tennis, field hockey and track and field along with the NCAA Field Hockey National Championship.
Banda joined U of L in 2000 as the associate director of sports medicine. She was the associate athletic trainer from 1997 to 2000 at the University of Notre Dame after spending six years as the assistant athletic trainer. As the associate, she supervised seven assistant athletic trainers, coordinated volunteer student athletic trainer program and traveled with football and women's lacrosse. As an assistant, she worked all 26 sports with primary coverage of women's soccer and women's basketball. She also was a representative on the Athletic Department Diversity Committee.
Prior to her stint with the Fighting Irish, she served as assistant athletic trainer at Morehead State from 1986-1991 where she had teaching responsibilities and coordinated pre-season physicals. She began her athletic training at Eastern Illinois as the assistant athletic trainer and administrative assistant after spending a year as a graduate assistant.
She was a member of the Indiana Athletic Trainers Associaton and is currently a member of the Kentucky Athletic Trainers' Society. She is a NATA certified athletic trainer with CPR certification.
A 1984 graduate of West Virginia University, with a bachelors of science in secondary education, she earned a master's in health, physical education and recreation in 1985 from Eastern Illinois University.
