Summer Neldner-Scott was recently named the 2009 High School Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Alabama Athletic Trainer’s Association.

Neldner-Scott, who joined the Trinity Medical Center Sports Medicine Program in 2005 as an athletic trainer, works with the Chelsea High School and middle school athletic programs.

She is a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her master’s at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.