Catherine Lass joined the Duke staff in July of 2019 as an associate athletic trainer and will be covering the women’s basketball program. She was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletic Medicine in July 2022, and currently serves as an athletic trainer preceptor for graduate athletic training students.
Prior to arriving in Durham, Lass served as the assistant athletic trainer and then senior assistant athletic trainer at Seton Hall University where she covered such sports as women’s basketball, women’s tennis, women’s golf, women’s volleyball and baseball. Outside of the training room, Lass also spent time as an associate professor at Seton Hall where she taught graduate-level courses on athletic training.
Lass worked for USA Basketball from February 2020 until June 2022, serving in several different roles. She started with USA Basketball as a 3x3 Olympic Team Athletic Trainer during the camp and training process prior to the 2020 Games, was the Head Athletic Trainer for the 3x3 National Camp in May 2022 and was the FIBA World Cup Athletic Trainer for both the men's and women's 3x3 National Team in June 2022.
Lass spent her undergraduate career at Springfield College in Mass., where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Applied Exercise Science with a concentration in strength and conditioning in 2011. After graduating from Springfield, Lass pursued her graduate degree at Seton Hall where she worked as a graduate athletic training student where she helped cover men’s basketball, softball and women’s basketball. After her year in South Orange, Lass then spent a year of her graduate work at the University of Princeton where she covered football, men’s basketball and men’s and women’s lacrosse. Lass holds her graduate degree from Seton Hall with a Master of Science in Athletic Training.
Lass, a native of New Hampshire, has also been very active on the athletic training lecture circuit up and down the east coast. She was a guest speaker at the AISM conference in Clearwater, Fla., and provided her insight on “PRP Injections in Elbow UCL Insufficient Division 1 Collegiate Baseball Players”. At Seton Hall, Lass co-hosted multiple lectures with other inter-professionals of New Jersey at the university regarding cardiac cases, scaphoid fractures, and hip labrum tears. Lass was the President of the AISM Big East Conference during her time at Seton Hall.
Last updated: 8/17/2022