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Julia Margolis

Sport Coverage: Football, Women's Hockey, Softball, Track & Field Jumpers

Julia Margolis M.S., LAT, ATC enters her third year as Assistant Athletic Trainer in 2024-25.  
 
Margolis arrived at Buffalo State in July of 2022 after spending the Spring 2022 semester at nearby Villa Maria College as the program's head athletic trainer, where she helped update testing and concussion policies while also creating a mental health management plan for the College's student-athletes.
 
Prior to relocating to Buffalo, Margolis spent two years at Williams College in Western Massachusetts as the program's assistant athletic trainer. She worked with the College's field hockey, men's soccer, swimming and diving, rugby, squash, and track and field programs, as well as a host of club sports. Working through the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Margolis helped develop COVID-19 guidelines and policies for the College. Margolis also served in an assistant athletic training role at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, where she worked with the men's soccer, men's basketball, tennis, and squash programs.
 
Outside of college athletics, Margolis served a number of roles at Excelsior Orthopedics (Amherst, N.Y.), the Allegheny Health Network (Pa.), the CATS Academy (Boston, Mass.), and Advanced Physical Therapy Solutions (Hope Mills, N.C.).
 
Margolis received her training at Norwich University and Springfield College. She received her undergrad degree from Norwich in 2014, earning degrees in athletic training and health sciences with a concentration in sports medicine. At Springfield, Margolis worked as a graduate athletic trainer, working with the women's soccer and softball programs, while earning a M.S. in Exercise Science and Sport Sciences, with a concentration in Athletic Training Rehabilitation in 2017.

Margolis is married to Buffalo State's head women's soccer coach Greg Margolis.
 
Margolis has earned the following certifications and licenses:
 
American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor – March 2022
American Heart Association BLS Provider – December 2021
Board of Certification – July 2014
Certified Kinesiology Taping Practitioner – March 2019  
Certified Graston Technique Provider – June 2019