Stephannie joined the HPU athletic staff in the summer of 2021 after serving as the Head Athletic Trainer at Big Spring ISD from 2019 to 2021.

Before Big Spring ISD, Stephannie served as the Assistant Athletic Trainer at Howard College in the 2018-2019 school year.

Before that, she worked two years for Shannon Sports Medicine as an Outreach Athletic Trainer serving local area high schools

After receiving her undergraduate degree in Exercise Science from Angelo State University, she worked as a Graduate Assistant at Angelo State from 2017-2019. She completed her Master of Curriculum and Instruction in May of 2019 from Angelo State.