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30 NAIA National Championships
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A former 2-sport standout at Azusa Pacific in the mid-1990s, April Reed is in her ninth season as Azusa Pacific’s head athletic trainer.

Reed returned to her alma mater in 1999 after serving a year as the head athletic trainer at Caltech. Previously, she served 3 years as an assistant and intern at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif.

Reed oversees the prevention, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. She has served as the lead athletic trainer for Cougar football, men's and women's basketball and softball and this year adds men's and women's soccer.

A member of the National Athletic Trainer's Association, Reed serves on numerous national committees and is currently the president of the NAIA Athletic Trainers Association. She is also a member of the College Sports Medicine Foundation Advisory Board, and the Cramer Sports Medicine National Advisory Council.

Probably the finest goal keeper in Azusa Pacific history, Reed lettered 4 years in women’s soccer, setting records for most career shutouts (25) and saves (475) along with the single season record for most saves (169).

Reed also lettered 4 seasons in softball and in 1995 she became the first Azusa Pacific athlete to earn All-Golden State Athletic Conference first-team recognition in soccer and softball.

A former NAIA All-America Scholar-Athlete, Reed graduated from Azusa Pacific with a bachelor’s degree in 1995. She earned her master’s degree in sports medicine from Long Beach State in 1998.

Reed prepped at Rowland High School in Rowland Hts., Calif. She currently resides in La Verne, Calif.