Carrboro High School athletic trainer Myranda Crump, who is known by her colleagues for going above and beyond in her work, was recently recognized as the 2024 North Carolina Athletic Directors Association Athletic Trainer of the Year.
She started her career as an athletic trainer at J.H. Rose High School in Greenville. After a few years of working there, she moved to Carrboro High School, where she has worked since.
She said she enjoys working at CHS because of the amount of support she receives from staff, students and the community itself.
“My favorite part is always just getting to interact with the community, parents, kids on a daily basis — not one day looks the same," Crump said. “Thankfully, teenagers make my job very, very funny and interesting."
Scarlett Steinert, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ director of healthful living, athletics and drivers education, said Crump was hired at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which meant she had to start her job online.
Steinert said Crump’s work during this time included preparing for the upcoming athletic school year by planning for a variety of situations working with EMTs, firefighters and the other athletic trainers in the district. Steinert said the work exemplified her professionalism and was one of the reasons she nominated Crump.
“She's a very professional athletic trainer — one of the best trainers I've ever worked with in my many years in this business,” Steinert said. “She cares about students first, and is great at communicating with coaches, parents and kids, and just really takes her job so serious.”
The NCADA started offering a variety of awards during COVID, when the board decided to recognize essential personnel that were taken for granted before, Roy Turner, executive director of the NCADA, said.
“That's our intent: to just sort of spotlight what people are doing and obviously, we feel like this is a great way of doing this,” he said.
