Megan Guthrie

Hmmmm. Where, exactly, should I begin?  How can I possibly abbreviate the last 20 years?

I suppose I could start with:

After high school I went to UNM starting, very appropriately, as a theatre major. Even though I spent EVERY WAKING MOMENT I had at LAHS in the theater and music department, I found that I kept on dreaming about working in sports medicine/physical therapy. So after a short stint at NMSU and another back at UNM, I realized that I truly needed to find myself and figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. (Sound familiar?!)

And so began me gallivanting about the country working any crazy job I could get my hands on just to see if I liked it. It started as a maid in San Diego, then a general manager of a video store and a seamstress in Pensacola, Florida, to a paralegal at a 24-attorney corporate law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a corporate marketing assistant and game-day operations coordinator for the Pensacola Ice Pilots professional hockey team in Pensacola, Florida (just to name a few).

After all the moving and soul searching, I finally went back to school at the University of West Florida in Pensacola and earned my BS in Sports Medicine. Then I became a Certified Athletic Trainer. (For those of you who don’t know: I am that person with the gauze and athletic tape who runs out on the field (or the ice) when an athlete goes down. Athletic Trainers evaluate and treat athletic injuries aka: Athletic Therapist.)

I landed my dream job as the Head Athletic Trainer for the Mobile Mysticks Professional Hockey Team in Mobile, Alabama, and my amazing and exciting career in Sports Medicine began.  When the team relocated to Northeast Atlanta as the Gwinnett Gladiators, I moved with them. I traveled all over the country with the team, including an amazing playoff series in Anchorage, Alaska. In Atlanta, I got to work with our NHL affiliate the Atlanta Thrashers for 3 years. (Definitely a sweet deal!) 

In the middle of all that, I also worked with the Under-23 Women’s National Rugby Team for 5 years and traveled to England, Canada and New Zealand. 20 years ago, if anyone had told me that I would be getting paid to watch sports all day long… well, you know…

So after 9 years of heavy travel and zero social life, I took the plunge to move across the country to be with my boyfriend, Jason, of 3+ years who is a stationed in Yuma, Arizona.

I have been working at Arizona Western College for 1 year and couldn’t be happier! I finally have the time to do all of the things that I have grown to love doing over the last 20 years. Wilderness backpacking, mountain biking and skydiving are a few of the things on the top of my list. It’s also nice to be back in the southwest and nearer to my family (most of whom are still in Los Alamos.)

Thanks to everyone that submitted their bios! It has been fascinating seeing what everyone has been up to and how everyone has changed! 

My first skydive (Jason is holding my hand and our friend Matt is my tandum instructor)

Me at Havasupai in the Grand Canyon

My Assistant Athletic Trainer Dani and I working

Me helping an injured goalie

Me at the top of Alyeska ski resort, Alaska

Jason and I in Times Square for New Years Eve

Jason And I in Phantom Canyon, CO

Our babies Cash the dog and Fergal the cat looking very dapper