Eastern Illinois University Athletics

CHARLESTON, Ill. – Several Eastern Illinois graduate and undergraduate athletic trainers are completing summer internships with National Football League teams as six total trainers with EIU ties are working in various athletic training internships this summer.

EIU Associate Athletic Director and Head Athletic Trainer Mark Bonnstetter said that all six athletic trainers worked in the EIU training room during the 2007-08 school year and each is gaining additional experience this summer. The list includes Ray Lysinger, Eric DePorter, Shawn Ready, Shanna Davis, Dan Czajkowski and Dani Wessel.

Lysinger (Charleston, Ill.), DePorter (Rockford, Ill.) and Ready (Effingham, Ill.) are all currently working summer internships in the National Football League. Lysinger is working with the New Orleans Saints whose head coach is former EIU quarterback Sean Payton. Deporter is working with the St. Louis Rams and Ready is working with the New England Patriots.

Czajkowski (Edwardsville, Ill.) is spending the summer as a training intern with the Chicago Fire while Wessel (Pocahontas, Ill.) is interning with the Chicago Bandits, a women’s professional softball team. Davis (Charleston, Ill.) is working this summer as a intern at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida.