“I inspire greatness through my passion for sports medicine and helping others. I accomplish this by integrating the most current research with personalized care in order to optimize patient outcomes and keep athletes at their highest performance levels, both on the court and throughout the community.”

Christine Mitchell is committed to helping students do more than overcome their injuries by working to improve their functional movement so they can succeed as athletes and improve their joint health.

Here at La Jolla Country Day School, Ms. Mitchell started a student athletic training program in order to share her love of sports medicine. She hopes to inspire students to pursue careers in the medical field. At the very least, students will learn about their bodies and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and how to perform CPR and use an AED.

As LJCDS’s certified athletic trainer, Ms. Mitchell ensures the safety, well being and success of all Torrey athletes, whether it’s caring for abrasions, rehabilitating reconstructed ACLs, educating on concussions, developing injury-prevention plans, or implementing emergency action plans.

Ms. Mitchell obtained a Bachelor of Science in athletic training from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Science in exercise physiology from Boston University. She has worked with South Carolina’s football and basketball teams, Boston University’s field hockey team, the New England Revolution’s academy soccer teams and San Diego State’s women’s soccer team. In her spare time, she teaches injury prevention at the San Diego Circus Center, where she is also learning to hand-balance.

After exploring the East Coast, Ms. Mitchell returned to Escondido, where she resides with her chihuahua, Charlie.

Daniel (Danny) Mulvihill joined the LJCDS community in 2022 as an Upper School science educator. From a young age, he loved learning about how the world worked. Mr. Mulvihill frequently explored mechanical phenomena such as disassembling his dad’s lawnmower and natural biological wonders, like when he stopped running during a second-grade track meet to inspect an insect in the middle of the track. 

After completing a bachelor’s degree in biology at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, Mr. Mulvihill spent time conducting stem cell research at The Scripps Research Institute, working for the USDA on the Asian Longhorn Beetle eradication project in New Jersey, and teaching kids at Oak Crest Day Camp survival skills, including how to safely construct a proper s’more over their fires.

During his seven years as a science teacher at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Edison, NJ, he earned his teaching credential, served as Director of STEM and established the school’s educational makerspace.

While teaching in New Jersey, Mr. Mulvihill also met his significant other, LJCDS design and innovation educator Casey Walker, and they moved to San Diego together in 2021. They are proud cat parents and even prouder of their garage workshop, which features a 1947 South Bend metal lathe and a 1930 Ford Model A Coup, which he last restored to working condition in high school. Mr. Mulvihill is a huge fan of Star Wars; he likes it almost as much as he likes spiders.