Emerging Settings in Athletic Training: International Missionary & Athletic Trainer

Name: Marissa Yorgey, MS, LAT, ATC

Organization: Faith Academy, via Ethnos360

Job: International Missionary & Athletic Trainer

Location: Manila, Philippines

Our third athletic trainer in our National Athletic Training Month 2022 series on Emerging Settings in Athletic Training features Marissa Yorgey, MS, LAT, ATC. Marissa is a 2015 grad of Cedarville University and holds an MS degree from Indiana State University. She previously worked as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer through Union Hospital/Indiana State at West Vigo High School and as an athletic trainer at Linn-Marr High School in Marion, Iowa, near Cedar Rapids.

In August 2021, Marissa set off on a new adventure. She moved to the Philippines to work at Faith Academy, an international high school located in Manila. “I found this position through a mission organization called Ethnos360. I raise my own funds to live and work here so that others can come to know about the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to provide my services as an athletic trainer to an unreached population”, said Marissa. Offering athletic training services to an unreached population is one of Marissa’s favorite things about her job. She said, “So far, my favorite thing has been…