Steven Bickel enters his first season as an athletic trainer with the CMS sports medicine staff for the 2026-27 academic year.
Bickel has most recently served as the head athletic trainer at Cerro Coso Community College in Ridgecrest, California for two years. While at Cerro Coso, he also served the college as an adjunct professor.
Prior to taking the position at Cerro Coso, Bickel was an athletic trainer with the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) in 2023-24, and with the Houston Dynamo Football Club in 2022-23.
Bickel earned his bachelor's degree in athletic training from CSU Northridge in 2019, where he was a member of the athletic training club and the kinesiology majors association. He went on to get his master's in kinesiology and exercise science from Concordia University in Chicago, and his schedule to finish his PhD in health sciences from Liberty University in December of 2026.
