Brian Brewster is serving as an athletic trainer for the U.S. National Junior Team for the first time.

It will mark the fifth time Brewster has served as an athletic trainer for a U.S. national team. He was on the staff of the gold medal-winning U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, and also part of gold medal-winning teams at the 2009 International Paralympic Committee Sled Hockey World Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation World Inline Hockey World Championship in Dresden, Germany. In addition, Brewster was also the athletic trainer for the 2012 U.S. National Inline Team. 

He contributed to the gold medal-winning 2010 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team in Vancouver, British Columbia, and won a world championship with the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team in 2009 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Brewster also served as trainer for the 2012 and 2013 U.S. National Inline Hockey teams, winning gold at the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation World Inline Hockey World Championship in Dresden, Germany.

Currently, Brewster is the coordinator of sports medicine at Portage Health Sports Medicine Institute, a position he has held since January 2007. He coordinates athletic training services for Michigan Tech University, Finlandia University, and five area high schools.

Since 2005, Brewster has served as a certified athletic trainer at Michigan Tech where he works primarily with Tech’s hockey program. Additionally, he is an instructor in the University’s Kinesiology and Integrated Physiology Department.

Brewster received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2000. He went on to gain his master’s degree at Hastings (Neb.) College while serving as assistant athletic trainer there from 2000-05.

Brewster, a member of numerous professional organizations including the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, resides with his wife, Katie, in Houghton.