Tom Dufresne

Tom Dufresne has been serving Nebraska Athletics as an athletic trainer since September of 1997. Dufresne is the head women's gymnastics and bowling physical therapist and athletic trainer. Dufresne also assists in the coordination of rehabilitation for Nebraska’s Olympic sports, including men’s and women’s tennis, volleyball, men’s and women’s track and field and softball.

A former head student athletic trainer at Nebraska, Dufresne joined the Husker athletic medicine staff as an assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist in 1997. He previously served as an assistant athletic trainer at UCLA for nine years before receiving his master’s degree in physical therapy in 1991 at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, Calif.

Originally from Ventura, Calif., Dufresne graduated from Nebraska in 1980. His brother, Mark, was a letterman on the NU football team in 1976 and 1977. Tom and his wife, Iffat, a 1982 UNL graduate, have been married since 1985.