Katy Harris is the athletic trainer for the women’s ice hockey team and also provides coverage for non-traditional seasons for the softball and soccer teams. She serves as the Athletics Health Care Administrator and is the liaison to Cornell Health. A member of the Sports Medicine Committee at Cornell Health as well as the Co-Chair of the Student-Athlete Mental Health Committee, she has been data collector for the Ivy League-Big Ten Epidemiology Study since 2013. Harris also serves as a preceptor to athletic training students from Ithaca College.
Harris joined the Big Red in 2012 as a graduate assistant athletic trainer and transitioned to a member of the full time staff in the fall of 2014 after completing her master's in Exercise Science with a concentration in Sports Psychology from Ithaca College. She is a 2008 graduate of Ithaca, where she earned her degree in Athletic Training. In her senior year, she was the athletic training student with Cornell women’s lacrosse.
Prior to joining the Big Red, Harris was the head athletic trainer in the Elmira City School District (2008-12). Here her responsibilities included developing concussion return to play protocols, developing knee, ankle, and shoulder injury prevention programs, developing and managing athletic training budgets, and designing the athletic training room. She has been a certified athletic trainer since 2008 and a member of the NATA, EATA and NYSATA since 2005.
Harris is native of Syracuse, N.Y., and currently resides in Dryden with her husband, Greg, and children, Brennan and Leighton.
