Sally Nogle Honored With Tim Kerin Award
6/25/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football

EAST LANSING, Mich. â€" Michigan State head athletic trainer Dr. Sally Nogle was honored with the Tim Kerin Award on Thursday, June 25, at the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) annual convention in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Tim Kerin Award recognizes one individual each year for outstanding service by an athletic trainer. The award itself is shaped like a three-leaf clover. Each leaf represents one of Tim Kerin's finest qualities: service, dedication and integrity.
"This is quite a professional honor, especially since I knew Tim Kerin," Nogle said. "As a young professional, I looked up to Tim because he had established himself as a leader in this field. He had quite an impact on this profession."
Nogle was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in June 2012 and has been recognized on several previous occasions by the organization. In 2003, she received the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award, and in 1998, she claimed the NATA Service Award.
Nogle has served as a member of the Michigan State Athletic Training staff since October 1983. She was promoted to the position of MSU head athletic trainer and head football athletic trainer during the summer of 2013.
Nogle has also received the Michigan Athletic Trainers' Society Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in and the Michigan Athletic Trainers' Society Hall of Fame Award. In 2006, she was named a recipient of the Jack Breslin Outstanding Staff Award for Michigan State University. In April 2008, Nogle was honored with the San Diego State University Robert J. Moore Distinguished Alumnus Award.
She was also honored in March 2012 with the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association (GLATA) Outstanding Educator Award. The award recognizes those members who have significantly contributed to the education of the GLATA members through academic presentations, published manuscripts or editorials, and educational program development.
Nogle also has extensive experience on the international stage. In 1984, she worked with volleyball at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and in 1985 and 1986, she worked at the U.S. Olympic Sports Festivals in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. Nogle was the athletic trainer for the U.S. women's basketball team at the 1987 World University Games in Yugoslavia. She was also selected to work with the U.S. Rowing Team at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, in 1988.
Nogle earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1979 and a master's degree in 1983, both from San Diego State University, and her Ph.D. from MSU in 2001.
Nogle is one of three current MSU athletic trainers in the NATA Hall of Fame, along with Dr. John Powell and Dave Carrier, who was inducted this year.
About Tim Kerin
Kerin is remembered by many for his distinguished career as head athletic trainer at University as Tennessee as well as his service to his community, university and profession. The honor that bears his name was first awarded in 1994.