By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 20, 2024
Every year, March is designated as National Athletic Training Month. This year, ESSENCE is celebrating by profiling Vanessa Brooks, who made history in 2019 when she joined the NBA as the first Black woman to be dually certified as an athletic trainer and physical therapist.
Watch any Oklahoma Thunder NBA game, and you can find Brooks sitting in “the front row of the Thunder’s bench,”
