Jackie Knight begins her sixth year as an assistant athletic trainer at Campbell University and her first working as the head athletic trainer of the football team. She was promoted again in Oct. 2011 and named the interim head athletic trainer. She will handle the entire department's daily operations while also continuing to work daily with the football program.

Knight had been the athletic trainer for the Lady Camels women’s basketball team, men’s and women’s tennis teams and men’s and women’s golf teams prior to being promoted in the summer of 2011. She also works as the Clinical Coordinator of the Athletic Training Education Program and teaches classes within that program.

Knight comes to Campbell from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich. where she served as the head athletic trainer and assistant professor in the Health and Physical Education Department for three years. While at Hillsdale College with a staff of only two Certified Athletic Trainers, Jackie worked primarily with the football, men’s basketball, and softball teams but covered all the other sports regularly.

While receiving her master’s degree in athletic training from Indiana State University, Knight was a graduate assistant in the Sycamores athletic training department. During her stint at Indiana State, Knight also served as an athletic trainer at Terre Haute North Vigo High School.

Knight got her bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Olivet College in Olivet, Mich. As an undergrad at Olivet, Knight served as the football equipment manager and student athletic trainer while participating as a student-athlete on the softball and basketball teams. She also had the opportunity to be one of the athletic trainers for the Michigan Cadet National Wrestling Camp during the summer.

In the summertime for the past several years, Jackie has worked with USA Athletes International and has had the opportunity to play softball in international competitions and travel around the world. More recently she has switched gears and transitioned to coaching softball teams as well as serving as the athletic trainer on trips with USA Athletes International. In the summer of 2008, Jackie coached a team that won the gold medal while competing in Sydney, Australia at the Olympic Softball Stadium, the site of the 2000 Summer Olympics.   

Knight is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association, Michigan Athletic Trainer’s Society, Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers Association, and is an American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED instructor.