Illinois Wesleyan

Cire Tan joined the athletic training staff prior to the 2025-26 academic year. Tan will work alongside Melissa Perkins with the football team, and will be the athletic trainer for women's wrestling.

Tan comes to Illinois Wesleyan by way of College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin foe Carroll University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science, Pre-Athletic Training, and his Master's of Athletic Training from. While at Carroll, Tan worked with the football team for the 2023 season as an athletic training student. The next semester saw him serve as an AT student at Whitnall High School and at the Carroll Orthopedic Sports Medicine Clinic. This past year, Tan was an athletic training student at Carroll's CURE Clinic, and the Aurora Orthopedic Clinic. Tan rounded out his master's program by serving as an athletic training student for the Northwestern University football team this past spring. He has been a member of the National Athletic Trainer's Association (NATA) and the Wisconsin Athletic Trainer's Association (WATA) since August 2023.