Mark Colston was named an athletic trainer at Bradley in August 2014 and is in his seventh year on The Hilltop.

Colston came to The Hilltop from Wabash College, where he was the head athletic trainer for eight of his 11 years.  During his time at the Crawfordsville, Ind., school he worked directly with the baseball, soccer, basketball, tennis and golf teams.  Colston, who helped oversee the athletic training needs for approximately 400 student-athletes, supervised a group of Purdue University Student athletic trainers working at Wabash College, providing instruction to the group in a real-world setting as they worked toward their undergraduate degrees.

A 2001 graduate of Eastern Illinois, Colston earned his master’s degree in physical education from EIU in 2002.  He is a certified athletic trainer and certified CPR instructor for the American Red Cross.