Tech Trainer Brewster Added to 2016 U.S. National Junior Team

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Michigan Tech certified athletic trainer Brian Brewster has been added to the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team as the team's trainer for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 26-Jan. 5.

Brewster is a 10-year veteran of athletic training at Michigan Tech, serving the past eight years as the coordinator of sports medicine for the UP Health System Portage Sports Medicine Institute. He has worked primarily with the Huskies' hockey team for the past four seasons.

Brewster has served as an athletic trainer for a four previous U.S. national teams. He was on the staff of the gold medal-winning U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, and also part of gold medal-winning teams at the 2009 IPC Sled Hockey World Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and the 2013 IIHF Inline World Championship in Dresden, Germany. In addition, Brewster was also the athletic trainer for the 2012 U.S. National Inline Team.

Michigan Tech's most recent member of the U.S. National Junior Team was Blake Pietila (2011-15), who played for Team USA and won gold at the 2013 World Juniors in Ufa, Russia.

Other staff members of the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team are head coach Ron Wilson, assistant coaches Chris Chelios, Danton Cole and Kevin Reiter, and general manager Jim Johannson.

The U.S. will compete in a group with Canada, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland at the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship.