Sydney Marquardt enters her third season as VMI Football’s head athletic trainer after she was hired in July 2023.
A native of East Haven, Connecticut, Marquardt comes to the Institute after serving for one year as a graduate assistant at Jacksonville State where she assumed joint responsibility of over 120 football athletes and provided sole care of 20 men’s and women’s cheerleading athletes.
Prior to Jacksonville State, Marquardt served as a student clinician for the Boston Marathon in May 2022 and the NCAA Regional Wrestling Championships held in Springfield, Mass., in March 2022.
Marquardt worked with The College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.) football team during the Fall 2021 season. She assumed joint responsibility for nearly 100 athletes and fostered positive relationships with multiple clinicians from external institutions as well as the Holy Cross medical team.
Marquardt graduated from Springfield College (Springfield, Mass.) with a bachelor's degree in athletic training in May 2022. She received her master's of science in sports management from Jacksonville State University and is set to receive her second master's degree in sport and performance psychology from the University of the Western States.
She is certified in CPR/AED and First Aid emergency medical response.
