The Ithaca College Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is happy to announce the hiring of Carolina MacQuarrie, who will serve as the new Assistant Director of Sports Medicine. MacQuarrie will begin her appointment on June 17.
MacQuarrie comes to South Hill after spending the last three years as an assistant athletic trainer at Williams College, where she worked with eight varsity athletic teams. She was also responsible for developing rehabilitative, preventative and performance enhancement exercises for student-athletes and work with the team physician to determine return-to-play decisions.
Prior to her time at Williams, MacQuarrie was managing and working as a physical therapist in her own PT clinic located in Brazil. At the same time, she was working as a physical and respiratory therapist in ICU units of several different hospitals.
A native of Brazil, MacQuarrie graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2013 and shortly after earned her Master of Science in Athletic Training from California University of Pennsylvania, while working as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer for the volleyball, women's swimming and men's and women's golf teams.
MacQuarrie also worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Washington & Jefferson College (2014-15). She earned her physical therapy degree in 2018 at Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
Her husband, Dan MacQuarrie, served as an assistant men's and women's swimming & diving coach at Ithaca College for two years during the 2016 and 2017 academic years.
