You’d be hard pressed to call Sara Kaskowitz ’14 a football fanatic. When her father, Moravian University Associate Professor of Management Gary Kaskowitz, would take her to see the University of Maryland Terrapins play when he was doing post-graduate study, young Sara would bring books to read to keep from nodding off.

Today, Dr. Kaskowitz ’14 (the daughter) is laser-focused on football, especially when she’s standing on the sidelines of a National Football League game as part of the team of physicians working for the New York Jets.

Kaskowitz is a resident physician and fellow with Atlantic Sports Health, the sports medicine program of Atlantic Health System, the official healthcare partner of the New York Jets. Kaskowtiz works under the Jets’ head team physicians as a primary care doctor, handling everything from colds to concussions.

Most team physicians are fellowship-trained in either orthopedic surgery, general surgery, or, like Kaskowitz, internal medicine. A fellow has completed four years of undergraduate study, four years of medical school, and four to five years of residency before entering the fellowship. As an on-field physician, Kaskowitz is part of a vanguard of women opening doors to various roles in the NFL, including coaching staffs, front office and personnel departments, training rooms, and officiating crews, that were once ruled exclusively by men.

What may seem like a glamourous gig is a lot of work, but it’s still a really cool job, says Kaskowitz, especially when you get to travel with the football team as she likely will during the Jets’ upcoming road trips to Pittsburgh and New England. She’s among a team of fellows with primary care and orthopedic sports medicine specialties who share on-field duties during games.

While standing on the field with the likes of Super Bowl quarterback Aaron Rodgers in stadiums packed with 60,000 screaming fans is thrilling, Kaskowitz says the variety of her work is what she finds most appealing about her fellowship. During any given week she may provide medical coverage for a high school football game one day, cover a Division I college soccer or volleyball game the next day, work in a high school training room another day, and do clinical procedures like ultrasounds to diagnose ligament tears and sprains before heading to Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford on Sunday to cover the Jets.