Head athletics trainer Dave Binder was honored as a Faculty Mentor for his guidance to a pair of UNM students. Lobo undergrads Amber Martinez and Addie Phillips have worked for Binder as student trainers the past four years. Martinez and Phillips, who will graduate in May, noted how instrumental Binder has been in helping them in the field of athletic training.
Part of their class curriculum was making a presentation at the UNM Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference on April 3. Binder, who has 37 years of experience in athletics training at the collegiate level, has been the Lobos' head trainer since 1995.
Elizabeth Taimi, Assistant Director of the Lobo Club, has been awarded one of 25 inaugural National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD) Diversity Initiative Program grants to attend the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention in Orlando, Fla., in June.
Taimi has worked with the Lobo Club since July 2007 and has previous experience at Yale, the University of Massachusetts and the NCAA office in Indianapolis. Taimi’s responsibilities with the Lobo Club include assistance with the annual membership drive and oversight of both the $1.6 million gift-in-kind program and the Junior Lobo Club. She is currently working toward her Ph.D. in Sport Administration at UNM.