Hwaseon Kim was added to the Rensselaer training staff in the fall of 2012.

A 2012 graduate of Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill., Kim is the main athletic training contact for women's basketball and women's lacrosse. She is the secondary contact for football, while also assisting with RPI's other 20 sports.

As a student, Kim worked with the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League. She helped evaluate injuries and administered rehabilitation techniques and procedures to enhance injury recovery for those professional players. She was also a student athletic trainer at Lewis, where she worked with the volleyball team, but also performed injury evaluation, taped and evaluated injuries.

Kim spent the summer of 2011 with Newsome Physical and Hand Therapy, providing rehab, therapy and treatment as required. That followed a stint at the University of St. Francis as well as time spent at two Illinois high schools.

The Japanese native was also an athletic training student with Tokyo Apache Japan, a professional basketball team, as well as a physician's assistant at Tsurui Orthopedics in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan.

Kim is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and board certified by the organization.