Kelsey Galles is in her fifth year as a staff athletic trainer at UW-La Crosse in 2025-26. She arrived at UWL after serving as the athletic trainer at Everett Community College (Wash.) from 2017-21, responsible for coverage for all home games, traveling with teams for postseason tournaments, creating rehabiltation programs for injured student-athletes, communicating with the team physician, coaches and administration as well as documenting injuries.
Galles was an athletic training intern at Western Oregon University in 2016-17, primarily working with women's soccer, women's basketball and softball. She completed clinical rotations with the Arizona State University gymnastics team, Northern Arizona University football and volleyball teams and Flagstaff (Ariz.) High School.
She earned her bachelor's degree in exercise sport science from UWL in 2013 and master's degree in athletic training from Northern Arizona University in 2016. Galles was a member of UWL's gymnastics team, helping lead the Eagles to the 2010 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Championship.
Galles has been a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association since 2016.
