Women's Basketball
Buchheit, Brittany
Brittany Buchheit
- Title:
- Athletic Trainer (WBB)
- Email:
- bbuchheit@athletics.pitt.edu
Brittany Buchheit joined the University of Pittsburgh Department of Athletics in August of 2019 as an athletic trainer. Buchheit works in the Petersen Events Center with the women’s basketball team and oversees the graduate student working with the cheer and dance squads.
Prior to her arrival at Pitt, Buchheit spent five years at Binghamton University as an assistant athletic trainer in the Athletics Department. During her time with the Bearcats, Buchheit was responsible for the women’s basketball team, women’s tennis team and softball team. She also worked with women’s soccer and track and field teams. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Buchheit structured and ran the Binghamton Sports Medicine Twitter and Facebook accounts, along with organizing the weekly staff work schedules, assisting with balancing the yearly budget and supply ordering, facilitating the student athlete drug testing, and running the EKGs during pre-participation athletic physicals. Buchheit also supervised Certified Intern Athletic Trainers along with supervising and teaching non-certified sports medicine student interns. She also helped organize, manage and host an America East Conference Health and Safety Summit, along with two America East Women’s Basketball, one women’s tennis, and four softball conference tournaments during her time with the Bearcats.
Buchheit served a two-year internship at Binghamton University as an athletic trainer working with the Bearcats women’s volleyball and softball teams, while earning a master’s degree in exercise science and sports psychology from Global Online California University of Pennsylvania in 2014.
A 2012 graduate of Clarion University with a Bachelor of Science in liberal studies and a minor in psychology, Buchheit also earned a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from California University of Pennsylvania. She assisted with the preparation and maintenance of student athletes for the men’s and women’s soccer teams, men’s and women’s basketball teams, and the football team at Clarion University as an undergraduate athletic training student during her junior and senior years. During her freshmen and sophomore years, Buchheit had observational hours along with clinical experience with all teams at California University of Pennsylvania. While at Clarion University, during her junior and senior year, she was a member of the women’s tennis team, and while at California University of Pennsylvania, during her freshmen and sophomore year Buchheit was a member of the women’s track and field team.
Buchheit is a Licensed Athletic Trainer in both New York and Pennsylvania, and is certified in the Graston Technique, Cup Therapy: Myofascial Decompression and is a Performance Enhancement Specialist. She also is an active member in the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association.
The Saint Mary’s, Pa., native, now resides in Pittsburgh.
Beyond the Bio
What do you love most about the University of Pittsburgh?
How welcoming it is, friendly everyone is, and the amount of school pride the students, the staff and the community has for it. I have traveled a lot with work and for personal reasons this past year and in both ways if I am wearing a Pitt shirt or hat and someone sees it, they come up to me right away and show me their school pride or say “Hail to Pitt!”
What is your favorite thing to do in the city of Pittsburgh?
The food scene! Pittsburgh has so many great locally owned restaurants, coffee shops, and more offering so many kinds of food and drink options. I know whatever food I am craving that day I can go find a great spot and not be disappointed.
Hobbies outside of work?
Hiking and skiing: find me a mountain, no matter what season, and I’ll enjoy it.
Gardening and canning: growing up on a farm makes me love growing my own fruits and vegetables and then preserving them into homemade salsas, applesauce, soups, sauces, etc.
Favorite quote?
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
Prior to her arrival at Pitt, Buchheit spent five years at Binghamton University as an assistant athletic trainer in the Athletics Department. During her time with the Bearcats, Buchheit was responsible for the women’s basketball team, women’s tennis team and softball team. She also worked with women’s soccer and track and field teams. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Buchheit structured and ran the Binghamton Sports Medicine Twitter and Facebook accounts, along with organizing the weekly staff work schedules, assisting with balancing the yearly budget and supply ordering, facilitating the student athlete drug testing, and running the EKGs during pre-participation athletic physicals. Buchheit also supervised Certified Intern Athletic Trainers along with supervising and teaching non-certified sports medicine student interns. She also helped organize, manage and host an America East Conference Health and Safety Summit, along with two America East Women’s Basketball, one women’s tennis, and four softball conference tournaments during her time with the Bearcats.
Buchheit served a two-year internship at Binghamton University as an athletic trainer working with the Bearcats women’s volleyball and softball teams, while earning a master’s degree in exercise science and sports psychology from Global Online California University of Pennsylvania in 2014.
A 2012 graduate of Clarion University with a Bachelor of Science in liberal studies and a minor in psychology, Buchheit also earned a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from California University of Pennsylvania. She assisted with the preparation and maintenance of student athletes for the men’s and women’s soccer teams, men’s and women’s basketball teams, and the football team at Clarion University as an undergraduate athletic training student during her junior and senior years. During her freshmen and sophomore years, Buchheit had observational hours along with clinical experience with all teams at California University of Pennsylvania. While at Clarion University, during her junior and senior year, she was a member of the women’s tennis team, and while at California University of Pennsylvania, during her freshmen and sophomore year Buchheit was a member of the women’s track and field team.
Buchheit is a Licensed Athletic Trainer in both New York and Pennsylvania, and is certified in the Graston Technique, Cup Therapy: Myofascial Decompression and is a Performance Enhancement Specialist. She also is an active member in the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association.
The Saint Mary’s, Pa., native, now resides in Pittsburgh.
Beyond the Bio
What do you love most about the University of Pittsburgh?
How welcoming it is, friendly everyone is, and the amount of school pride the students, the staff and the community has for it. I have traveled a lot with work and for personal reasons this past year and in both ways if I am wearing a Pitt shirt or hat and someone sees it, they come up to me right away and show me their school pride or say “Hail to Pitt!”
What is your favorite thing to do in the city of Pittsburgh?
The food scene! Pittsburgh has so many great locally owned restaurants, coffee shops, and more offering so many kinds of food and drink options. I know whatever food I am craving that day I can go find a great spot and not be disappointed.
Hobbies outside of work?
Hiking and skiing: find me a mountain, no matter what season, and I’ll enjoy it.
Gardening and canning: growing up on a farm makes me love growing my own fruits and vegetables and then preserving them into homemade salsas, applesauce, soups, sauces, etc.
Favorite quote?
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
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