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Roggie wraps an ankle in her office in the Lower Fieldhouse. |
-Photo by Jason Harville |
In an e-mail sent Jan. 8 to the Milligan community, Ray Smith, athletic director and assistant baseball coach, announced the hiring of Erica Roggie as the new athletic trainer. Roggie filled the position Cary Targett left in the fall.
According to Smith, Kim Hyatt, head volleyball coach, met Roggie, then a staff member of Pikeville College’s athletic department, at a volleyball match between Milligan and Pikeville College in Pikeville, Ky. Hyatt, knowing Milligan was in need of an Athletic Trainer, introduced Roggie to Smith and Kevin Brinn, director of sports marketing, who both traveled to Pikeville to watch the match.
“We had her application [for the job] before we left that day,” Smith said.
Smith said five or six other applicants were interviewed for the job, but that Roggie was “at the top of the list.”
Roggie graduated in Dec. 2001 from Houghton College in N.Y. with a bachelor of science in athletic training. She was a substitute teacher for six months and then became the Pikeville Athletic Trainer.
Smith described Roggie as a
“go getter” who is very organized.
“She’s very good at what she does,” he said.
Roggie said she enjoys the challenges of athletic training.
“One day is never the same as the one before it. I love the challenge of improving something and making it more efficient,” she said.
Roggie can usually be found in her Lower Fieldhouse office mornings from 9 a.m. to noon.