Nicole Ross begins her fifth year as a staff athletic trainer II at UW-La Crosse in 2025-26. She also serves as an associate lecturer in the exercise sport science department. Ross has served as an Athletic Trainer I at UWL from 2019-21, providing athletic training services for cross country, women's track & field and women's and men's basketball.
She worked as a certified athletic trainer at Gundersen Health System since 2014, including serving as lead athletic trainer at Viterbo University (Wis.) from 2015-18. Ross was named the 2018 North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Athletic Trainer of the Year. She also worked as a certified surgical technologist with Mayo Clinic Health System from May-August in 2019.
Prior to working at Gundersen Health System, Ross was a certified athletic trainer at Dartmouth College (N.H.), working with men's soccer, swimming & diving, men's lacrosse, women's volleyball, squash, rowing and softball. She also worked at Binghamton University (N.Y.) as a certified athletic trainer, providing medical care for men's soccer, women's basketball, swimming & diving, men's lacrosse, volleyball and softball.
Ross earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Wisconsin Lutheran College in 1995 and master's degree in human kinetics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999. She also earned an associate degree in surgical technology from Western Wisconsin Technical College in 2019.
She is a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Trainers' Association Board of Certification, Inc.
