Training Tabled
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Training Tabled

By Andrew Wyder

Never did Chapin Wehde imagine what the next year would entail when the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic struck home in March 2020. Illinois Institute of Technology’s head athletics trainer, assistant director of athletics, and senior women administrator, Wehde spent 11-plus months organizing, writing protocols, and doing all that she and her team—which includes assistant athletic trainers Sarah Wegrzyn and Evyn Nolette—could do to keep Scarlet Hawks student-athletes healthy. It was, in Wehde’s words, “so unreal.”