Allison Susa enters her second year with the Northern State Athletic Training Staff in the fall of 2025. Susa joins the team following a stint as a lead athletic trainer with the Minnesota Twins. She serves as the primary athletic trainer for the volleyball, men's basketball, women’s basketball and baseball teams.
Susa served the Twins organization in two capacities, mostly recently as the lead trainer during their Florida Complex League from January of 2023 to October of 2024. Prior to that, she was an assistant athletic trainer for the St. Paul Saints beginning in March of 2022.
Susa is not a stranger to college athletics or the Northern Sun, serving as an athletic trainer at Minnesota Duluth from 2019-2022. In addition, she held roles with the Boston Red Sox organization (2019), the Arkansas Children’s Hospital (2018), and River Valley Therapy and Sports Medicine (2018). Susa opened her career as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the University of Central Arkansas from 2016-18.
A member of multiple athletic training organizations, Susa earned the Excellence in Athletic Training Award given out by the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association and Call of Duty Award given out by Arkansas State Athletic Trainers’ Association in 2018.
Susa holds a bachelor's degree in athletic training from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse and master’s degree in Exercise Sport Science from the University of Central Arkansas.
