Mechelle Norris joined the UMBC Sports Medicine staff in July 2023. She will be working with the Retriever women’s basketball program.
Norris has extensive experience at the collegiate level, serving most recently as an assistant athletic trainer at Christopher Newport College during the 2022-23 academic year. At CNU, she helped the men’s basketball program take home their first national championship in program history. Prior to her time in Newport News, she worked at Loyola University Maryland from 2017-2022 and was the primary athletic trainer for the women’s basketball and volleyball squads.
She is a 2015 graduate of Lynchburg (Va.) College where she earned numerous awards and honors including the Residence Life Overall Greatest Contribution Award for the 2014-15 academic year. She received her masters in exercise science with a concentration in athletic training research from Auburn University the following year in 2016.
