Amber Edwards - Sports Medicine Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Amber Edwards

Title:
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Email:
amber.edwards-1@colorado.edu
Phone:
303-492-3802

Amber Edwards is in her second year as an assistant athletic trainer at Colorado, as she was hired on July 19, 2021. She works exclusively with CU’s football team.

Edwards, 30, joined the CU sports medicine team from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where she was an assistant athletic trainer for the football team for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. She had previously served as an assistant trainer for the football and men’s and women’s golf teams from 2017-19 at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., and was on the Thundering Herd’s staff for two bowl victories (against Colorado State in the 2017 New Mexico Bowl and versus South Florida in the 2018 Gasparilla Bowl).

She graduated from Troy University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training, where she was a student athletic trainer, and earned her masters of science in Exercise Science from Louisiana-Monroe in 2016 and was a graduate assistant trainer for the Warhawks. She began her professional career as an intern for the football program at the University of Texas at Austin from 2016-17.

She was born November 29, 1991 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and graduated from Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa where she lettered in soccer. Her hobbies include watching sports and spending time with her dog Wyatt, a miniature dachshund.