Hi, I’m Nina.
I’m a licensed and board-certified Athletic Trainer with more than 15 years of experience across sports medicine, performance, and athlete health.
My work has taken me from collegiate athletics and clinical care to professional sport—but the goal has stayed remarkably consistent: helping athletes understand their bodies, build capacity, and keep doing what they love.
My career has taken me through collegiate athletics, orthopedic and sports medicine clinics, workplace health, strength and performance, healthcare operations, and professional sport.
Those environments may look different, but the thread between them has always been the same: understanding what athletes need and building better care around them.
I didn’t set out to build one kind of career.
MY BACKGROUND
I started my career in collegiate sports medicine, working with Division I athletes at Yale and later alongside physicians in orthopedic sports medicine at USC.
From there, my work expanded into physical therapy and sports medicine practice, where I spent years helping athletes navigate injury, rehabilitation, and return to sport. At the same time, I took on increasing responsibility for the operational side of healthcare—developing programs, improving workflows, coordinating care, educating athletes, and building the systems that make good clinical work possible.
That combination of hands-on care and bigger-picture thinking continues to shape the way I work today.
A STRONG FOUNDATION
Professional dance brought all of those pieces together.
In 2019, I began building the athletic training program for the Golden State Warriors entertainment teams. What started as an effort to bring consistent sports medicine care to an underserved area of professional sport grew into a much broader athlete health and performance program.
Seven seasons later, that work has expanded across NBA and WNBA Pro Dance, including the Golden State Valkyries, and now supports approximately 150 professional dance athletes each season. The program brings together injury care, rehabilitation and return to performance, screening, strength, recovery, athlete education, medical coordination, and the systems needed to support athletes across demanding professional seasons.
That experience has reinforced something I’ve seen throughout my career: sports medicine, training, recovery, and education work best when they aren't treated as separate pieces.
For me, the job is ultimately about helping athletes stay healthy enough, strong enough, and informed enough to keep doing what they love.
EXPANDING THE LENS
THE DETAILS
Experience matters. So does constantly learning.
My experience spans clinical sports medicine, rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, athlete education, healthcare operations and professional sport.
I’m based in Portland, Oregon, where life outside of work mostly centers around family, getting outside, exploring the Pacific Northwest, and finding ways to stay active without needing every type of movement to count as training.
Becoming a parent has shifted my perspective in plenty of ways—including how I think about time, priorities, and what it means to feel strong and capable in different seasons of life.
LIFE OUTSIDE SPORTS MEDICINE
READY WHEN YOU ARE.
Let’s build what’s next.
Whether you’re working through an injury, looking to get more out of your training, or building better support for your athletes, let’s talk about what you need.