Sports Medicine

track & field NSU SPORTS MEDICINE STAFF

JASON DRURY

DIRECTOR OF SPORTS MEDICINE

Idaho State, 1999; Northwestern State, 2001 15th season at Northwestern State

Now in his 15th season at Northwestern State, Jason Drury was promoted to director of sports medicine in 2012 after the retirement of long-time athletic trainer Ed Evans. Drury joined the sports medicine staff at Northwestern State University in the summer of 2005 after being the head athletic trainer at Natchitoches Central for five years.

Drury was instrumental in developing Northwestern State’s partnership with Natchitoches Regional Medical Center, which doubled NSU’s full-time sports medicine staff in 2015.

In the spring of 2009, Drury took over as the head football athletic trainer for the Demons, after working for three seasons with the women’s soccer team and one season with men’s basketball team.

A 1999 graduate of Idaho State University in biology, Drury worked with numerous sports in Pocatello, Idaho, including football, men’s basketball and track and field. Drury earned his master’s degree in sports administration from Northwestern State in 2001, during which time he worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the NSU softball team.

Drury is a native of Paoli, Indiana. He and his wife, Toni, have been married for 16 years. They have two children, Maddox and Kenzie.

KOLLEEN BROWN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SPORTS MEDICINE

Morrisville State, 2014; Daemen College, 2016 Third season at Northwestern State

Kolleen Brown is in her third season as part of the Northwestern State sports medicine staff.

Brown, who arrived in Natchitoches in August 2017, is Northwestern State’s primary athletic trainer for women’s basketball.

A former all-conference soccer player at Morrisville State, Brown earned her undergraduate degree in human performance and health promotion before collecting her master’s degree in athletic training from Daemen College. Brown also played lacrosse, where she helped her team to the NAC West Division Championship Tournament.

While at Utica College, Brown was the primary athletic trainer for women’s ice hockey and women’s lacrosse. Brown worked with Niagara University’s men’s hockey team in 2016 and with the University of Buffalo’s women’s soccer team in 2014. She also worked with the Buffalo football team during spring practice in 2015. Her time at Niagara and Buffalo came while she was earning her master’s degree from Daemen.

Brown also performed occupational medical clearance physicals at Healthworks in Buffalo.

A Licensed Athletic Trainer, Brown is BOC certified and holds a CDC concussion certification. She is first-aid/CPR/AED certified and is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

KALEVI PAJULUOMA

INTERIM ASST. DIRECTOR OF SPORTS MEDICINE UL Lafayette, 2020; 1st season at Northwestern State

Kalevi Pajuluoma was named Northwestern State's interim assistant director of sports medicine in August 2020 after spending one season as a graduate assistant athletic trainer on the NSU staff.

Pajuluoma spent more than two years at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, assisting with men’s basketball, volleyball, men’s and women’s tennis and track and field.

He also assisted W.B. Ray High in a variety of sports for one year.

Pajuluoma gained additional experience with events like the Manning Passing Academy, large-scale high school track meets and college tennis tournaments and high school cross country meets among others.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in May and is CPR and first-aid certified.

Nicknamed “Kal,” he also learned on the job while attending Diablo Valley College where he assisted with soccer, basketball, football and volleyball.

BRITTANY GOLDBERG

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SPORTS MEDICINE

Southern Utah, 2016; Northwestern State, 2018 Fourth season at Northwestern State

Brittany Goldberg returned to Northwestern State as its assistant director of sports medicine in July 2018 after a short stint at UL Lafayette.

The Lake Havasu City, Arizona, native graduated from Northwestern State with a masters in health and human performance with a concentration in health promotion in May 2018, after spending two years working as an athletic trainer with soccer, spring volleyball, tennis and football.

She is the primary athletic trainer for Northwestern State baseball.

The Southern Utah graduate earned a degree in athletic training and exercise science while serving two athletics seasons with duties ranging from emergency care, rehabilitation and baseline concussion testing.

Her sport assignments included football, softball, men’s basketball, gymnastics, cross country, track and field, volleyball and tennis. Goldberg served Parowan High School in a variety of sports as well as the Utah High School Activities Association football championships.

Goldberg is a licensed athletic trainer by the State of Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners, a BOC certified athletic trainer and a Red Cross certified professional rescuer. Goldberg, a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers’ Association, was awarded the Big Sky Football Officials Association Student Athletic Trainer Scholarship in 2015.