A 2014 graduate of the University of California, Davis, Patrick Ebke currently works with Illinois' soccer. Ebke came to Illinois after serving as the athletic trainer for Central Michigan baseball and football. 

A native of the Bay Area in California, he earned his master's degree from the University of Arkansas in 2017. While there, Ebke worked with the sports programs at Bentonville West High School, Rogers High School and at the Shoulder Clinic of Arkansas. 

Ebke has had two other stops before coming to Champaign as he worked as an athletic training intern with the Kansas City Chiefs and with Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports.