University of Connecticut Athletics
Janelle Francisco - Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Associate Athletic Trainer (WBB, Golf)
- Email:
- janelle.francisco@uconn.edu
Janelle Francisco is the primary athletic trainer for womenโs basketball and men's golf at UConn. She oversees the day-to-day care of the womenโs basketball student-athletes as well as assisting in the medical care of student-athletes in all sports. Francisco is also responsible for CPR, AED and first aid training of the Sports Medicine department and coordinating CPR, AED and first aid training for the Athletics staff.
Francisco began working at UConn in 2008 and has worked with the baseball, football, womenโs ice hockey and men & womenโs tennis programs. Francisco came from Wagner College, in Staten Island, NY, where she was the head athletic trainer for football and womenโs basketball from 2005-08. From 2003-05, she was a graduate assistant athletic trainer for womenโs basketball at Central Connecticut. Francisco was also an intern athletic trainer at Villanova University for womenโs volleyball and softball from 2002-03.
She received her bachelorโs degree in kinesiology/athletic training from UConn in 2002 and her masterโs degree in physical education from Central Connecticut State University in 2005.ย
Francisco has beenย a member of the National Athletic Trainersโ Association (NATA) since 1999. She became a Board of Certification (BOC) Certified Athletic Trainer in 2002.
Francisco held the position of Secretary for the Connecticut Athletic Trainersโ Association (CATA), from 2010-2016. In 2017, she received the CATA Athletic Trainer of the Year award. Franciscoย also won the Ralph C. Mansell Outstanding Approved Clinical Instructor award in 2019ย from the UConn Department of Kinesiology.
