When your son steps onto the field at Hargrave, Morgan Merrill is the person making sure he stays there. Healthy, resilient, and performing at his best.
Morgan brings professional and elite-level sports medicine experience to Hargrave. He has worked with the Seattle Seahawks, University of Washington athletics, Canada’s Olympic 3-on-3 women’s basketball team, the WHL Lethbridge Hurricanes, U.S. Ski and Snowboard athletes, and BYU football and hockey. Before Hargrave, he served as Head Athletic Trainer at the University of Lethbridge.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training and is a certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), Licensed Athletic Trainer (LAT), Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES), and BLS-Certified provider. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA).
Morgan’s approach blends rehabilitative medicine with advanced therapeutic modalities to return athletes to competition as quickly and safely as possible. His clinical toolkit includes diagnostic ultrasound, shockwave therapy, low-level light therapy, short-wave diathermy, FMS movement screening, blood flow restriction training, cryotherapy, myofascial release, ASTYM, and neuromuscular electrical stimulation. These are interventions backed by current research and rarely available at the secondary school level.
His goal goes beyond recovery. He builds athletes who are stronger, faster, and more injury-resistant than they were before. At Hargrave, the military structure and character-driven culture give him young men who show up every day with the discipline and drive to do the hard work that rehabilitation demands.
“Watching athletes overcome adversity and getting to celebrate small wins with them,” Morgan says, “brings an overwhelming sense of satisfaction and joy.”