Christina Carrillo

Director of Sports Medicine at Friendship Collegiate Academy

Christina ‘Tina’ Carrillo is the Director of Sports Medicine at Friendship Collegiate Academy in Washington, DC.  She was hired as the first athletic trainer at Friendship Public Charter Schools in 2011, where she has created and implemented a robust, comprehensive athletic training program and teaches sports medicine.  At the time, she was the first and only athletic trainer in District of Columbia public charter schools and she made it her mission to change those statistics.  As co-chair of the District of Columbia Sports Medicine Advisory Committee (DCSMAC) she uses that platform to successfully push that initiative. Tina collaborated to help create policies and procedures that all District of Columbia State Athletic Association member schools follow to date, using the KSI TUFSS principles as the baseline.  She is actively working closely with the DC Public Charter School Board to get athletic trainers into all the public charter schools within Washington, DC. She is an integral part in all things related to secondary school athletic training and irreplaceable in DC athletic training advocacy.

Tina has held many positions within the District of Columbia Athletic Trainers’ Association (DCATA), Mid Atlantic Athletic Trainers’ Association (MAATA) and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA).  She was awarded the Friendship Public Charter School CEO Choice Award (2023), NATA Servant’s Heart Award (2023), NATA Young Professionals’ Committee National Distinction Award (2021), MAATA District Director’s Award (2021), and the 2020 Korey Stringer Institute Lifesaving Service Award.

Tina is also a relentless advocate for increasing ethnic diversity within the profession. She received the NATA EDAC grant three times, starting in 2016.  The funding from the grant allowed her to create an annual DCATA Student Athletic Training Symposium, which exposes ethnically diverse students to the profession. She founded the Friendship Collegiate HOSA sports medicine program and her students have competed nationally. She now serves on the HOSA DC Advisory Board, working to grow the sports medicine program in DC high schools.

She currently lives in Woodbridge, VA with her husband and daughter.