Carrie Rubertino Shearer joined the Baylor Athletic Medicine staff in March 2018 to serve as the Director of Rehabilitation Services. In June of 2019 she was promoted to Assistant AD for Athletic Medicine while also continuing oversite of physical therapy for the Baylor Student-Athletes. In June of 2021, Rubertino Shearer was promoted to Associate AD for Athletic Medicine. In this role she is responsible for oversseing the medical care for all of Baylor's student-athletes.
In addition, Rubertino Shearer serves as the secondary sport program administrator for track & field and cross country. She previously served as the secondary sport program administrator for Baylor's nationally ranked volleyball program.
Prior to moving to Baylor, Rubertino Shearer provided athletic training and physical therapy services to student-athletes and campus students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2009-17. Throughout her time at UNC, she served as the head athletic trainer for Men's and Women's Track and Field, Women’s Tennis and spent one season with Women’s Basketball. She was a part of three Women’s Indoor Tennis National Championship victories and a runner-up at the outdoor NCAA Championships.
Before joining the Tarheels, Carrie spent four years at UCLA as an Associate Head Athletic Trainer, serving three years as the head men’s basketball athletic trainer (earning two trips to Final Four) in addition to caring for the Women's Waterpolo National Championship team, the Women's Tennis National Championship team, Women's Volleyball and Softball team. Additionally, she oversaw the rehabilitation of post-operative student-athletes and served on the athlete care committee.
Rubertino Shearer spent four seasons (2001-05) as an assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist at Santa Clara University. While at SCU, she served as the head athletic trainer for the women’s soccer team that won the 2001 NCAA Championship. She also served as the head athletic trainer for the women’s basketball and men’s and women’s tennis programs.
During the 2000-01 campaign, Rubertino Shearer was an assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist at Stanford University, overseeing the rehabilitations of post-operative injuries and working with the men’s and women’s cross country and men’s and women’s track programs.
Rubertino Shearer earned her master’s degree in education at Auburn University in 2000. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy at The Ohio State University in 1998 while a student in the internship program for athletic training. She first became involved in sports medicine while attending Brecksville Broadview Hts High School just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to her degrees, she is certified in Integrative Dry Needling, Graston technique, Blood Flow Restriction therapy, and is a Corrective Exercise Specialist.
Carrie and her husband, John, have three daughters, Reagan, McKinley and Carter Ann.
