Caren Walls was hired in the summer of 2014 as an Associate Athletic Trainer. She works with the Butler Women’s Basketball program and the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams. She also assists in coordinating the insurance claims process for our student athletes.
Before coming to Butler, Walls was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA from 2012-14 where she worked with both the men’s and women’s basketball programs and coordinated all insurance claims processing. From 2006-2012, she was an Assistant Athletic Trainer and Rehabilitation Coordinator at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA working primarily with men’s basketball, but also with volleyball, cross country, cheerleading, and women’s basketball. She also taught Field Assessment in Athletic Training in the Athletic Training undergraduate program.
Walls earned her Masters Degree in Kinesiology at Georgia Southern University. While a graduate student at Georgia Southern, she worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer with the baseball and track and field teams. She was awarded the Graduate Scholarship from the Georgia Athletic Trainers’ Association and was a National Athletic Trainers’ Graduate Research Finalist and presenter. Prior to Georgia Southern, she earned her Bachelors in Kinesiology from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA.
Walls has been a nationally certified Athletic Trainer since 2004 and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist since 2007. She has taken additional courses in Kinesiotaping, Graston, and Cranio-Sacral Therapy.
Caren Walls is originally from Emlenton, Pennsylvania.
Director of Sports Medicine Ryan Galloy on Caren: Caren came to Butler highly recommended from both schools in Georgia that she was previously at. Her clinical knowledge of a variety of manual therapy techniques and her lengthy experience with basketball and cross country/track and field will be great assets to both of those teams here at Butler!
