The 2020-21 season will mark Jessica Cole’s 12th year as the head assistant athletic trainer at Norfolk State. She is responsible for the athletic training needs of the Spartan men's basketball team in addition to helping out with football and other sports.
Previously, Cole served as the assistant athletic trainer at Virginia State in Petersburg, Va., for two years from 2007-09. She also worked for two and a half years as the athletic trainer at Chelsea Community Hospital Outpatient Physical Therapy in her native Chelsea, Mich.
Cole earned her bachelor's degree in athletic training from Florida Southern in 2004. She completed her senior internship with the WNBA's Detroit Shock in 2004, and earned her master's degree in exercise physiology from Eastern Michigan in 2008.
