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ANDREA DUBAY
Assistant Trainer
Andrea Dubay is in her fourth year as
an assistant athletic trainer, as she joined
the department on a full-time basis in
August, 2000.
She primarily works with the cross
county and track teams.
Dubay, 33, was named to the position
after working three years as an student athletic
trainer at CU. She worked with the
football and men’s and women’s ski team in
1999-2000 as the department’s intern. She
worked with the tennis and ski teams as a
student trainer between 1997 and 1999. She
earned her Master of Science in kinesiology
and applied physiology from CU in 1999, also working as a teaching
assistant in the department of kinesiology as well as serving as a graduate
research assistant.
She graduated from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in
1993, majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry. She worked
three years as a student trainer at SIU, working with six different sports
in her tenure.
Born August 27, 1971 in Granite City, Ill., she graduated from
Edwardsville (Ill.) High School in 1989, where she lettered in track
(hurdles, high jump). An accomplished triathlete, she competed with
almost 2,000 participants in the 2004 Iron Man Triathlon in Austria. She
is single.
DERRICK FITTS
Assistant Trainer
Derrick Fitts is in his second year as an
assistant athletic trainer, joining the
department in August 2003. He primarily
works with the men’s basketball and men’s
tennis teams.
Fitts, 27, came to Colorado from Kansas
State, where he worked mainly with the
women’s basketball program but also had
other responsibilities that included football
as well as supervising student training
staff.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise
and sports science, with an emphasis
in athletic training, from the University of
Florida in 1999. He completed 1,500 hours of work as a student trainer
at Florida, including working national title games in football for both the
1996 and 1997 seasons.
He received his graduate degree in kinesiology in 2000 from the
University of Northern Colorado, working as a graduate assistant
trainer while he earned his master’s. He also spent four summers as a
student athletic trainer intern with the NFL Denver Broncos.
Born December 10, 1976 in Santa Maria, Calif., he graduated from
Heritage High School in Littleton, Colo., where he lettered in wrestling
(four times), football (twice) and track (twice). He is married to the former
Laura Jo Swanson, and they have a daughter, Crystal Ann-Marie (6)
and son D.J. (born last October).
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DR. ERIC McCARTY
Team Physician
Dr. Eric McCarty is in his second year
working with the CU athletic program, joining
the sports medicine team in July 2003.
But he’s certainly no stranger to the
University or to Boulder.
McCarty, 39, accepted the Chief of
Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery
position in the Department of Orthopedics
at CU’s Health Sciences Center in Denver,
enabling him to return to his home state
where he starred as both a prep and collegian.
He returned to CU from Vanderbilt
University, where he was an orthopedic
surgeon, assistant professor and team physician for the Commodores’
athletic teams for four years.
He graduated in 1988 from CU with a degree in kinesiology and a 3.75
grade point average. A four-time Academic All-Big Eight team member,
the first in school history to be honored four times, he was an Academic
All-American his senior year, when he reached the finalist stage for the
Rhodes Scholarship. On the field, he earned first-team All-Big Eight honors
as a senior, when he led the Buffaloes with 148 tackles, the fourth
highest total at the time in team history. He had 237 career tackles in
two years on defense, after moving over from offense where he played
fullback (503 career rushing yards), and earned four letters.
He earned his M.D., with honors, in 1993 from the University of
Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, and did his internship residency
at Vanderbilt in orthopedic surgery between 1993 and 1998. Shortly
thereafter, he spent a year at The Hospital for Special Surgery in New
York City, where he received a fellowship in sports medicine and shoulder
surgery. While residing in New York, he worked with the NFL’s New
York Giants.
McCarty has been the recipient of over three dozen awards in his
professional career, and has had papers published on 15 occasions
while contributing to several others.
He was born November 16, 1964 in Lundstuhl, West Germany. He
graduated from Boulder High School in 1983, where he was the state’s
player of the year as a senior and considered one of the nation’s top
recruits after rushing for 1,301 and 13 touchdowns; he won the prestigious
Denver Post Gold Helmet Award that same year. He is married to
the former Miriam Liddell, and they have four children, Madeleine (9),
Eric Cleveland, Jr. (7), Shannon (4) and Torrance (2).
McCarty played linebacker for the Buffaloes in 1986-87.