Some of the hardest-working people in sports are often unseen, behind the scenes: in the locker rooms and on the sidelines of the world's biggest sporting events.
They're in charge of keeping teams' most valuable assets — their players — healthy. Yet despite being pivotal to the sport, athletic trainers go virtually unnoticed; at least, that was the case until a 20-year-old lawsuit against Peyton Manning resurfaced last week, in which Tennessee's former head athletic trainer alleged that Manning sexually assaulted her as she attended to his injury.
The number of women in coaching roles and in athletic director positions has increased in recent years, but men still overwhelmingly dominate the field in the top athletic training jobs.