Clarksville Wildcats Support Staff

Therese Sparn has severed as the athletic trainer at Clarksville High School for 39 years. Sparn is also a Special Education teacher at Clarksville High School. She serves as the athletic trainer for all 18 sports at the high school. Sparn was a student trainer at UT-Chattanooga from 1979-1984 and later became a graduate assistant at Austin Peay State University. Sparn is a member of NATA, SEATA, and TATS and has worked at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Sparn has worked with the TSSAA in wrestling weight management and coaches education courses along with serving the TSSAA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee. Along with the Wildcats, Sparn has worked with the Clarksville Coyotes and Clarksville Gunners, two semi-professional teams. Sparn has served as the secretary/treasurer for the Tennessee Athletic Trainers Society since 1989. Sparn has won numerous awards for her work with athletic training including the 1991 & 1993 Tennessee Athletic Trainers Society High School Ath- letic Trainer of the Year, the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Society High School Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1998, and the recipient of the TATS President Award in 2014. She was also awarded the National Athletic Trainers Association Service Award in 2002 and the NATA Servant’s Heart Award in 2017. Sparn was named to the Tennessee Athletic Trainers Society Hall of Fame in 2005. She was also named Clarksville High School Teacher of the Year for the 2022-2023 school year. In the fall of 2023, Ms. Sparn was named to the inaugural Hall of Fame Class for Clarksville High School Football.