Saint Michael's College

Cassandra Bushey is in her sixth year as a member of the Saint Michael's Sports Medicine staff in 2025-26.

Bushey was an athletic trainer at Colby-Sawyer College for the prior seven years, providing primary coverage to numerous programs while also serving as the strength & conditioning coach, senior woman administrator and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) adviser. The senior member of the Colby-Sawyer staff until her departure, Bushey was the preceptor for undergraduate athletic training students, managed inventory and oversaw a student work study staff.

A North Hartland, Vt., native, Bushey completed her master of science degree from Ohio University in 2013, graduating from a National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA)-accredited post-professional athletic training program. During graduate school, she earned Ohio University's Outstanding Graduate Athletic Training Student Award while serving as head athletic trainer at Southern Local High School in Racine, Ohio.

Bushey completed her undergraduate education at the University of New England, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in athletic training in 2011. A three-time Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Academic All-Conference qualifier as a member of the Nor'easters' field hockey team, Bushey was named CCC All-Conference as a sophomore. She helped UNE win the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) New England Tournament her junior campaign before the Nor'easters claimed the CCC Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament her senior season. Bushey was involved with SAAC during her undergraduate years.

Bushey has gained a vast amount of additional athletic training experience through local and national camps, working the Green Mountain Field Hockey Camp each year between 2014 and 2019 and providing coverage at Dartmouth College field hockey and soccer camps for four years. She was also an AT at the National Field Hockey Festival in California and Florida four times. In addition to holding her NATA certification, Bushey is National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and Eastern Athletic Trainers Association (EATA) certified.