Austin Peay State University Athletics

Liz Bailum, MS, LAT, ATC, joined Austin Peay athletics as an assistant athletic trainer in June 2024 and oversees the Governors' cross country and track & field programs. She also assists with the football team.

Bailum spent the last four years as an assistant athletic trainer at Florida A&M. Before her time in Tallahassee, Bailum participated in the National Football League's HBCU Internship in Mobile, Alabama, where she served as an assistant athletic trainer at the 2023 Reese's Senior Bowl. Baiul also served as an assistant athletic trainer for the 2022 East-West Shrine Bowl in Las Vegas as part of the NFL's HBCU Pipeline Experienceship.

Bailum began her career in collegiate athletics as an intern athletic trainer at Butler. While attending Florida International, she was an athletic training student who worked with the Panthers' football and women's basketball programs and served at several local high school programs.

Bailum graduated from Southern Indiana with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and a minor in nutrition in 2017 before earning a master's degree in athletic training from Florida International in 2019.