Bio

Masayasu Takaiwa is in his fifth year as a staff athletic trainer at Eastern Michigan University. Takaiwa joined the EMU staff in fall of 2003 after spending a year at Lake Superior State University.

Takaiwa has also served as a graduate assistant athletics trainer at Kent State University (Aug. 2000-May 2002), and was an intern athletics training student at Niagara University (2001). During his undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Takaiwa was an athletics training student (Aug. 1997-May 2000). He also served as an athletics training student at Dodge City Community College (Aug. 1996-May 1997).

Takaiwa attended the Goto College of Medical Arts and Sciences in Kanagawa, Japan, from 1991-94, before attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 1994-96, Dodge City Community College from 1996-97 and completing his bachelor’s degree in physical education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2000. He added his master of arts in sport and recreation at Kent State Univeristy in May 2002.

Takaiwa is a certified athletic trainer and a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, the Michigan Athletics Trainers’ Society and the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association.