Athletics Feature: Kaitlyn Maloney

When Kaitlyn Maloney entered her clinical rounds in the final year of her undergraduate degree in athletic training, she put in a request. Anything, but football.

"I went to Mary (Nadelen, the clinical supervisor) and I said, 'I don't care where I go, I just don't want football,'" Maloney said. "I will take anything, I'll go to the high school nobody wants to go to, I just don't want football.' I just didn't have a great experience with it."

Nadelen didn't listen. The football team was impressed with Maloney's work during her earlier clinicals and specifically requested her. She was put to work with the football team, over seven years and two schools later, Maloney is still serving as a…