John Roslien

Director, Athletic Training Education Program

John Roslien came to Central as head athletic trainer in 1986, becoming the athletic training education program director in 2003. He is also an assistant professor of exercise science.

Roslien was inducted into the Iowa Athletic Trainers Society (IATS) Hall of Honor in 2007 and is a past president of the organization.

Under Roslien’s leadership Central’s athletic training education program was granted accreditation in 2004 from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). The Central staff has grown to include three other certified athletic trainers and during his tenure, 54 Central program graduates have earned CAAHEP certification as athletic trainers.

A native of Decorah, Iowa, Roslien received a bachelor of science degree in physical education from the University of Iowa and a master's degree in sports administration from Western Illinois University. While at Iowa, he worked as an athletic training student, traveling to the Rose Bowl and the NCAA men's basketball tournament. He was an assistant athletic trainer and faculty member at Western Illinois before coming to Central.

From 2000-02 Roslien served as district vice president for the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and is now a district public relations chair after serving a three-year term as the IATS public relations director. He’s made numerous presentations at NATA district symposiums.

Roslien has extensive international experience. He spent a year as a physical education teacher in Tarsus, Turkey and is Central’s academic liaison with the college’s international study program at Bangor University in Wales. He visited the Wales program site as part of a faculty sabbatical in 2006. For the past 10 years Roslien has served as head athletic trainer and director of football operations for the American Football Coaches Association’s Division III all-star team at the Aztec Bowl in Mexico. He’s also been a tour coordinator on European trips for American teams from several colleges and organizations and was athletic trainer for the Iowa High School Basketball Coaches Association’s Select team trip to Melbourne, Australia. Roslien was an athletic trainer at the Pan-American Games in Indianapolis, Ind. and at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Marquette, Mich.

Also an assistant baseball coach at Central for seven seasons, Roslien received a Central College Presidential Service Standards Award in 2002 for his work at the college.

Phone: (641) 628-5132
Email: roslienj@central.edu

Leslie Duinink
Head athletic trainer

Leslie Duinink joined the Central staff as an assistant athletic trainer in 1999. She was named head athletic trainer in 2003.

A native of Monroe, Iowa, Duinink is a 1990 Central graduate and a certified athletic trainer. She received her master's degree in physical education with an athletic training emphasis from Indiana State University. From 1994-98, she worked with an orthopedist's office in a sports medicine outreach program at a hospital in Terre Haute, Ind.

Duinink also serves as the Iowa Athletic Trainers Society public relations director.

In 2002, Duinink received a Central Presidential Service Standards Award for her work at the college.

Phone: (641) 628-7643
Email: duininkl@central.edu

Dustin Briggs
Assistant athletic trainer

Dustin Briggs is in his first year on the athletic training staff at Central College.

Briggs was formerly an athletic trainer at Work Systems fitness center in Pella, also serving as head athletic trainer for the Des Moines Buccaneers hockey club. He previously served the athletic program at East High School in Des Moines.

A 2003 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Briggs is a certified athletic trainer and received a masters degree from the University of Kentucky.

Phone: (641) 628-5328
E-mail: briggsd@central.edu

Chris Viesselman
Assistant athletic trainer

Chris Viesselman is in his third year as an assistant athletic trainer at Central.

A graduate of Iowa State University where he was a student athletic trainer, Viesselman earned his master’s degree in athletic training in 2005 from Plymouth State University (N.H.). He previously served as an athletic trainer at William Penn for two years, including a year as interim head athletic trainer. He was a graduate assistant at Plymouth State and an athletic training intern at Hampden-Sydney College ( Va.).

For more information . . .

Feel free to contact any of our athletic trainers or find general information about athletic training at the following Web sites:

www.nata.org
www.bocatc.org
www.cewl.com