Brandon Armstrong is in his third season as an assistant athletic trainer with the Nebraska football team. Armstrong assists with all aspects of the athletic medicine efforts for the football team, including year-round preventive care, immediate care for injured athletes at practice and games and the reconditioning of injured athletes.
Armstrong comes to Nebraska after spending the 2012 and 2013 seasons as an athletic training intern with the New England Patriots. Previously, Armstrong spent the 2010 and 2011 seasons as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Alabama, which won the 2011 national championship.
Armstrong earned bachelor’s degrees in athletic training from Morehead State in exercise science in 2007 and in athletic training from Eastern Kentucky in 2010. He earned his master of science degree in health studies with a concentration in athletic training from Alabama in 2012.