DANBURY, Conn. - Sarah Quatela joins the Western Connecticut State University's athletic training staff in August and will serve as the primary contact for football, men's and women's golf, women's basketball and softball for the 2025-26 academic year.

Quatela worked at the Greenwich Country Day School since 2021 as their athletic trainer, where she worked in collaboration with strength coaches to run specialized wellness and recovery programs for post-season athletes, worked with coaches to ensure appropriate care and modifications for injured athletes and assisted in administrative duties including scheduling, logistics and additional department needs.

From 2019 to 2022, she served as the assistant athletic trainer at Caldwell University in Caldwell, N.J. and worked with football and men's lacrosse. Quatela was an integral part in the launch of the Cougars' first-ever men's lacrosse program. She managed both programs' budgets, organized NCAA drug testing and implemented COVID-19 return-to-play policies. Quatela acted as preceptor for Montclair State and Seton Hall MSAT, where she was responsible for clinical education and grading.

Quatela earned experience as a student athletic trainer for Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. and worked with baseball, women's gymnastics and men's lacrosse from 2018 to 2019. She was also an athletic training intern in 2018 for the New York Giants. In the fall of 2017, Quatela was a student athletic trainer at West Morris Central High School in Chester, N.J., and before that stint, she worked as a student athletic trainer at at Fairleigh Dickinson University for the 2016-17 academic year.

She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Sacred Heart University in 2014 and continued her education at Seton Hall University, where she graduated with a master's degree in athletic training in 2019.