Charlotte Kelso

Charlotte Kelso is currently a health and physical education instructor at Swanson Middle School in Arlington, Virginia, where also serves as Head Coach of the boy's basketball team and assistant coach for the girls' basketball team. Over the past 22 years, Ms. Kelso has been Head Athletic Trainer at the college (Morgan State, Mt. Olive, Tennessee Tech University) and high school level (William Fleming High School, Roanoke, Virginia; Richmond County Schools, Rockingham, N.C.), and coached college tennis and basketball and high school softball, volleyball and basketball.

She has also been a member of the medical team for USA Women's Soccer, been a trainer at the Olympic Gymnastics Trials and at the Pan American Games, and officiated volleyball, basketball and softball games.

A certified athletic trainer, instructor for the American Heart Association in CPR, and Red Cross instructor in First Aid/CPR, Ms. Kelso is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the National Athletic Trainer's Association and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. In addition to being a presenter for the Coalition of Americans to Protect Sports (CAPS), she has made numerous other professional presentations. She received her B.S. in Science, Physical Education and Sports Medicine from Appalachian State University (1979) and her Masters of Arts in Health, Physical Education and Sports Medicine from Tennessee Tech (1980).