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Jim Turk joined the Northern Colorado Sports Medicine staff in September 2005. In 2005 he served as the main athletic trainer for the baseball program. In 2006 he takes over the duties of being the sports medicine staff's Clinical Coordinator as well as being the athletic trainer for volleyball.
Turk came to Northern Colorado after spending five years at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. There he worked with the baseball and women's soccer programs as well as serving as an instructor in the Department of Kinesiology. Turk received his Master of Science degree in therapeutic kinesiology from Illinois in May 2002. As a graduate assistant, Turk also worked with the Illini's football team.
Turk received his Bachelor of Science degree in exercise physiology from The Ohio State University in June 2000. At Ohio State he was an athletic training student.
In summer of 1999 he served as an athletic training intern with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Turk is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers Association.
Turk, a native of Elyria, Ohio, and his wife, Lisa, live in Greeley.
