Allie Charleson joined West Virginia University’s athletics training staff in June 2024 as an athletic trainer with the Mountaineer football program.
Charleson’s responsibilities include day-to-day care, rehabilitation and injury prevention for the WVU Football program. She also has duties as the manager for the athletic training student-interns.
Charleson came to West Virginia after serving as a season intern with the Atlanta Falcons since May 2023. She provided injury prevention, care, maintenance and rehabilitation for the football athletes during the year. She developed in-home program for the athletes, performed evaluations and determined appropriate plans of care and aided the athletic trainers in written medical documentation. She also served as a summer intern in 2021 and 2022.
Prior to that, Charleson worked as a graduate assistant with the softball team at East Tennessee State. She provided medical care, injury prevention, and emergency mental health support for student athletes, and directly communicated student-athlete care with coaches, strength staff, physicians, and student athletes.
She worked with the football team as an undergraduate at Georgia, as well as women's basketball, softball, and volleyball. She also worked as a student athletic trainer at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, Georgia. As an athletic training student at Georgia, Charleson was able to travel with the softball team to Super Regionals and the Women’s College World Series.
Charleson graduated with bachelor’s degrees in athletic training and exercise and sport science from Georgia in 2021 and earned her master’s degree in sport management from East Tennessee State in 2023.
She holds certifications in CPR and First Aid by the American Heart Association, is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ and the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Associations and is a licensed athletic trainer in Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia.
A native of East Providence, Rhode Island, Charleson currently resides in Morgantown with her husband, Chris, and their dog, Aretemis.
