Athletic Trainer Sarah Sydor joined the Youngstown State staff in September of 2012. Sydor began handling athletic training duties for the women's basketball and men's tennis programs in 2016-17.
Prior to her current sports, Sydor was the trainer for the soccer and baseball programs. In 2014, the YSU baseball program won its second Horizon League Championship in school history and earned its first-ever win in the NCAA Regionals.
Sydor came to Youngstown State with almost 15 years of athletic training, teaching and administrative experience.
Before joining the YSU staff, she spent nearly five years as an assistant athletic trainer at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. While working in the athletic department, she also was a staff athletic trainer at Decauter Memorial Hospital.
At Millikin she worked with the volleyball and softball programs. Both programs won conference championships during her tenure.
She was an assistant athletic trainer for three years at Tennessee Tech, served as an assistant at Cumberland University for a year and previously worked at the Dayton Sports Medicine Institute. At TTU, Sydor worked with the men's basketball, softball and women's basketball programs. During her time at Cumberland, the Bulldogs won the NAIA National Championship in 2004 and were a two-time conference champion.
Sydor graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Physical Education in 2000. She earned her Master's in Health Promotion from Virginia Tech in 2001.
