STAFF & COACHES
for the men’s gymnastics team. Dufresne not only worked
with such future NFL stars as Troy Aikman and Marcus Patton,
but also with Bruin Olympic athletes, including Peter Vidmar,
Mitch Gaylord, Tim Daggett and Chris Waller.
After completing the Masters Program in Physical Therapy
at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, Calif., Dufresne served
as director of rehabilitation at a Bakersfield, Calif., hospital
for three years before returning to NU in 1997.
Dufresne is an instructor of rehabilitation and athletic
training for Nebraska’s student training program. Several of
his rehabilitation students are now working at other Division
I universities.
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,
have been married for 23 years.
the Olympic sports strength and conditioning staff at Marshall.
As a basketball player at Hardin-Simmons in Abilene, Texas,
Harris earned All-ASC (2001-2004) and Kodak First-Team AllAmerica honors (2004). She holds all HSU career, season and
game three-point records and was named ASC Female Athlete
of the Year in 2004.
Harris is a native of Stephenville, Texas, and graduated with
her bachelor’s degree (2004) and master’s degree (2005) in sports
and recreation management from Hardin-Simmons.
LINDSEY REMMERS
Director of Sports Nutrition
Seventh Year
Nebraska (2008)
As a registered dietitian and board certified specialist in
sports dietetics, Lindsey Remmers joined the Nebraska Athletic
Department as a full-time staff member in 2008 and serves as the
director of sports nutrition.
In her role, Remmers works to help integrate healthy
choices and optimal fueling into daily training routines for all of
Nebraska’s 24 varsity sports. She provides individual nutritional
counseling that focuses on individual performance fueling
strategies, hydration and proper supplementation, team nutrition
education sessions, on-site and travel meal management,
body composition analysis and eating disorder prevention and
counseling. Remmers also assists with the daily operations of the
Lewis Training Table, administering the food labeling system and
participating on the menu management team.
Previously, Remmers served as a volunteer intern for the
nutrition staff in 2005, and was promoted to graduate assistant
in 2006. She served as the associate director of sports nutrition
for the Huskers from 2008 to 2011. Originally from Filley, Neb.,
she obtained her bachelor of science degree in human nutrition
from Winthrop University in South Carolina, where she was also
a member of the volleyball team. She helped Winthrop to a pair
of conference championships as an athlete and another as a
volunteer coach.
Remmers earned her master’s degree in health and human
sciences, specializing in exercise science from the University of
Nebraska in 2008.
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only weight facility in the spring of 2011.
Harris served as an assistant strength and conditioning
coach for Olympic sports at Ohio State from 2006 to 2009.
Primarily responsible for men’s swimming, women’s swimming,
synchronized swimming, rifle and novice and varsity crew
teams, Harris gained experience training numerous All-Big Ten,
All-America and National team athletes. She served a six-week
stint as the USA National Synchronized Swimming strength
coach while they trained on-site at OSU. Harris also was part of
HISTORY
A certified strength and conditioning specialist, Lauren Harris
became part of the Husker strength and conditioning program
for the Nebraska soccer, softball, women’s gymnastics and rifle
programs in February of 2012.
Before joining the Nebraska staff, Harris served as the director
of strength and conditioning at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi,
beginning in 2009. While at TAMUCC, Harris was responsible
for the training and supervision of all 14 Division I sports, and
oversaw the design and completion of TAMUCC’s first athletics-
REVIEW
Assistant Strength Coach
Third Year
Hardin-Simmons (2004)
OPPONENTS
LAUREN HARRIS
2015 HUSKERS
Tom Dufresne, MPT, ATC, begins his 18th season at Nebraska
and 12th year as the head athletic trainer and physical
therapist for the Nebraska gymnastics team. Dufresne’s
responsibilities include coordination of primary health care
and treatment and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
Dufresne began his college athletic training career at
Nebraska, where he was the head student trainer in 1979.
After graduation, he began a nine-year stint at UCLA, where
he was an assistant football trainer and head athletic trainer
STAFF & COACHES
Assistant Athletic Trainer
18th Year
Nebraska (1980)
INTRO
TOM DUFRESNE