WALESKA, Ga. -- Ashley Wolary has joined Reinhardt University as its head athletic trainer. She is responsible for directing all aspects of Reinhardt's athletic training/sports medicine program, which includes serving more than 200 student-athletes who participate in 16 sports programs.

"Reinhardt has a great family atmosphere and I was ready to get back into a college setting," Wolary said. "I felt like this was a great place for me.

"Being in (NCAA) Division I sports for so long and then going into the clinic, it was a big change. That's when I realized that the college setting is where I wanted to be. I'm very excited to be here."

Wolary came to Reinhardt from Neurosport Physical Therapy's East Cobb (Ga.) Clinic, where she worked primarily with local colleges and high schools. From May through July, Wolary served as the athletic trainer for the Atlanta Silverbacks, a women's semiprofessional soccer team that captured Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference championships before finishing fourth among 29 squads in the W-League, a part of the United Soccer Leagues (USL).

From August to November 2009, Wolary was the interim head athletic trainer at NCAA Division III Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Ga.

Wolary earned her master's degree in sports and fitness from the University of Central Florida, an NCAA Division I institution in Orlando, in 2009. While at UCF, she was a graduate assistant certified athletic trainer for two years.

Before going to UCF, Wolary received her bachelor's degree in human sciences, with an emphasis on athletic training/sports medicine, at Division I Florida State University in Tallahassee in 2007. She served three years as a student athletic trainer at FSU.

Wolary is a member of and is certified by the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), the Georgia Athletic Trainers Association and The Athletic Trainers' Association of Florida. Also a part of the Southeast Athletic Trainers' Association, she is certified by the American Red Cross as a professional rescuer with oxygen administration and as a CPR/AED instructor.

Originally from Miami, Fla., Wolary now resides in Atlanta but plans to move to Woodstock, Ga., in the near future.