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    Amanda Shields     
     
      Amanda Shields
Position:
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Qualifications:
MS, ATC, EMT-IV

Amanda Shields is in her seventh year on the Lady Vol athletic training staff and was elevated to full-time status in August 2004. Her primary responsibility will be working with the softball program.

Shields graduated from the College of Charleston in 2003 with degrees in athletic training and physical education & health with an emphasis in exercise science. During the 1998-99 softball season at CofC, she spent time as a pitcher and first baseman for the Cougars.

Shields also has coaching experience after serving as the softball (two years) and volleyball (one year) coach at James Island Christian School in Charleston, S.C., during her collegiate career. In 2000, her softball squad at J.I.C.S. won a state championship, and Shields was honored as the South Carolina Independent Schools High School Coach of the Year for their division.

In addition, she served as an athletic training intern at North Greeneville College in Greenville, S.C., during the spring of 2003. The Chesnee, S.C., native graduated from UT in December 2004 with a master's degree in exercise science and completed her training to become licensed EMT in 2006.