Cat Faust enters her second season in Widener's Athletic Training Staff as the Assistant Athletic Trainer in 2025-26.
Faust serves as the primary athletic trainer for men's soccer, women's and men's volleyball, men's basketball, and women's lacrosse.
Faust holds numerous certifications including a BOC certification and being a licensed athletic trainer in Pennsylvania. Faust also holds an American Red Cross CPR and First Aid certification alongside QPR.
Faust joins Widener from her most recent stint at conference school Delaware Valley that began in August 2023. While at Delaware Valley, Faust provided care and support to multiple sports across their athletic department, aided in an overhaul of venue specific and mental health EAPs, and helped advocate for policy improvements for student-athletes.
In the summer of 2023, Faust spent a day covering Rowan's women's volleyball prospect clinic and in 2021 she spent time at their women's lacrosse prospect clinic. A three-day clinic in 2022 saw Faust provided coverage for TCNJ's Lions Wrestling Clinic.
Clinic rotations showed Faust with Rowan softball and women's and men's track & field in the spring of 2023 and Rowan football in the fall of 2022. While at Rowan, Faust managed overuse injuries, addressed mental health concerns, and developed an arm care program for throwers and an MTSS program for runners. During her time with football, Faust managed emergency situations involving spinal motion restriction, vacuum splinting, and heat illness, and helped develop a rehabilitation program for post-operation shoulder and knee injuries.
A short stint at Premier Orthopedics showed Faust observing office visits that provided care to a wide range of patient population, observed steroid injections, and sat in on onpost-operative summaries and check-ups.
Spring of 2022 had Faust at Delsea Regional high school where she provided athletic training services to group 3 high school athletes, learned valuable experience and knowledge in blood management, and developed extensive rehabilitation programs for a variety of injuries. The short stint also had Faust developing pre-surgical ACL rupture rehabilitation programs and proficiency in administrative work such as IMPACT testing, daily SOAP note updates, and logging of treatments and rehabilitation.
The North Wales, Pa. native earned her Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from Rowan University in May of 2023 and continued her education with a Master of Science in Athletic Training with a minor in sports psychology. Faust also holds a publication in The Combined Effectiveness of Therapeutic Ultrasound, Electrical Stimulations, and Blood Flow Restriction to Treat Symptoms of Muscle Damange that was published in Feburary of 2024 by the Research of Sports Medicine.
