Kansas City’s Potter named Warrior Hockey ECHL Athletic Trainer of the Year

The ECHL announced on Wednesday that Nick Potter of the Kansas City Mavericks is the 2024-25 recipient of the ECHL Athletic Trainer of the Year Award, presented by Warrior Hockey.
 
The winner is determined in a vote of the league’s athletic trainers.
 
Potter, who previously received the award during the 2018-19 season, is in his ninth season with the Mavericks. Potter served as the President of the ECHL Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society Executive Committee and is a member of the ECHL Player Safety Committee, ensuring the highest quality of healthcare and medical advancements provided to players and teams. Potter is also the ECHL representative on the AHL Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society Executive Committee.
 
Before joining the Mavericks staff, he spent eight seasons as an assistant athletic trainer for the Kansas City Chiefs. A 2005 Western Michigan University graduate, he spent his 2004 and 2005 summers as an athletic training intern for the Detroit Lions. Potter earned his master’s degree in sports management from Texas Tech, where he spent two seasons as a graduate assistant with the school’s football and golf teams. He is a certified athletic trainer and a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and Kansas City Athletic Trainers Society, in addition to his membership in PHATS.
 
​ECHL Athletic Trainer of the Year
2024-25           Nick Potter, Kansas City Mavericks
2023-24           Cody Lindhorst, Kalamazoo Wings
2022-23           Jordan Dutton, Allen Americans
2021-22           Tim Murray, Cincinnati Cyclones
2020-21           ECHL Athletic Trainers
2019-20           George Bullock, Indy Fuel
2018-19           Nick Potter, Kansas City Mavericks
2017-18           Matt Aiello, Greenville Swamp Rabbits
2016-17           Cole Libby, Utah Grizzlies
2015-16           Scott McLay, Alaska Aces
2014-15           Brad Fredrick, Toledo Walleye
2013-14           Steve Ruhmel, Florida Everblades
2012-13           Bob Case, Cincinnati Cyclones
2011-12           Mike Schroeder, Chicago Express
2010-11           Kevin Anderson, Stockton Thunder
2009-10           Bobby Walls, Ontario Reign
2008-09           Bryan Rodgers, Dayton Bombers
2007-08           Brian Grogesky, Reading Royals
 
About the ECHL
 
Formed in 1988-89 with five teams in four states, the ECHL has grown into a coast-to-coast league with 29 teams in 22 states and one Canadian province for its 37th season in 2024-25. There have been 768 players who have gone on to play in the National Hockey League after starting their careers in the ECHL, including 16 who have made their NHL debuts in the 2024-25 season. The ECHL has affiliations with 29 of the 32 NHL teams in 2024-25, marking the 27th consecutive season that the league has affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL. Further information on the ECHL is available on its website at ECHL.com.
 
About Warrior Hockey
 
Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Warrior Sports is recognized as one of the sporting goods industry’s premier manufacturer of innovative, high performance, cutting-edge equipment, footwear and apparel for lacrosse and hockey athletes of all ages and abilities. Founded in 1992 by former champion lacrosse player David Morrow, Warrior was acquired by privately-held New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. in February 2004.