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A native Atlantan, Buck
Andel played football for and graduated from Boys High.
He went on to graduate with a bachelor's and master's
degree from Georgia Tech where he lettered in both
baseball and football. Mr. Andel was a U.S. Army
veteran of World War II receiving a Silver Star, two
Bronze Stars, and three Purple Hearts for his service.
From 1948 until 1969, he was the head athletic trainer
of all sports including track, basketball, baseball and
wrestling at Georgia Tech during which time he served 14
Bowl teams. For 18 of those years, he was a key member
of the staff of Bobby Dodd, legendary head football
coach from 1945 to 1966. He also worked as an athletic
trainer for the 1960 Olympic Games. He was one of the
NATA founders and served on the original board of
directors in 1950. He also served as District IX
Secretary from 1951to 1953. He was honored with
induction into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1968 and
received a citation from the Georgia Sports Hall of
Fame. He was and inductee in the inaugural Georgia
Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2004 and
received the NATA 50 Year Award in 2005. Buck Andel
passed away February 13, 2005 at age 83. |
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John H. Anderson began his
career as Head Athletic Trainer at Auburn High School in
1966 after completing his B.S. at Auburn University in
1963 where he lettered in track and field and cross
country. He subsequently completed an M.S. at Auburn
University in 1967 before moving on to Troy University
as the Head Athletic Trainer in 1967 where he remained
until 1979. While at Troy he completed an M.Ed. in
1969. From 1979 through 1989 he served as the Head
Athletic Trainer at Louisiana State University before
returning to Troy in 1989 where he continues today as
the Program Director for Athletic Training Education.
In this role he has received the Ingall’s Award for
Excellence in Classroom Teaching from Troy.
John has been member of the
NATA since 1966 and became certified in 1970. His
credentials also include licensure as an EMT in both
Alabama and Louisiana. John has worked numerous
international events including the 1976 Olympics in
Mexico, the 1970 World Games, the 1983-1985 Olympic
Sports Festivals, the 1987 Pan American Games, the 1996
Olympics in Atlanta, and the 1983 World International
Special Olympics. He also served as the Head Athletic
Trainer for the Blue-Gray Football Classic 1971-1979 and
has been the Head Athletic Trainer for the Alabama
All-Star Football Classic from 1990 to present.
He has contributed through
several service clubs including the Troy Exchange Club
and the Troy Lions Club where he served as president in
1978. He chaired the Alabama Athletic Trainers’
Association Hall of Fame Committee from 1990 to 1998.
He has served as the District IX representative to the
NATA Memorials Resolutions Committee since 1999, and in
2000, he began serving as the Alabama representative to
the SEATA History and Archives Committee which he has
chaired since 2004.
John received the SEATA
District Award in 2001 and the Education/Administration
Award in 2007. In 1990, he received the NATA 25 Year
Award followed by the NATA Athletic Trainer Service
Award in 1997. He was also named NATA Most
Distinguished Athletic Trainer in 2006. In 2005, John
founded the Iota Tau Alpha Honor Society – an honor
society for Athletic Training Education Majors which
currently has 25 chapters and 500 members. |
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Bobby Barton earned a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky in
1968, a master’s degree from Marshall University in
1970, and a doctorate from Middle Tennessee State
University in 1976. He served as an athletic trainer at
the University of Kentucky, the University of Florida
and Florida International University, prior to going to
Eastern Kentucky University as Head Athletic Trainer and
Program Director in 1976. He served as District IX
Director and as NATA Vice President prior to being NATA
President from 1982 to 1986. He served on the NATA’s
Placement Committee, Public Relations Committee, the
50th Anniversary Celebration and Convention Planning
Committee as well as the NATA Research and Education
Foundation Board of Directors. He co-authored the
Commonwealth of Kentucky's athletic training
certification law and continued to serve his state,
district, and national organizations in numerous
professional endeavors. He remained a practicing
athletic trainer while earning professional rank at
Eastern Kentucky University and served as Head Athletic
Trainer for USA Basketball's World Championship Team at
the 1995 World University Games. He was awarded the
SEATA Award of Merit in 1987, inducted into the
NATA
Hall of Fame in 1996 and received the American
Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Distinguished
Service Athletic Trainer Award in 1998. He was
presented with the Outstanding Football Trainer Award by
the All-American Football Foundation in 1999. In 2006,
Bobby was the first athletic trainer ever inducted into
the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame and was inducted
into the Kentucky Athletic Trainers’ Society Hall of
Fame. |
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Marty Broussard's athletic
training career spanned six decades at Louisiana State
University. An exceptional baseball and track athlete
during his college days at LSU, Broussard took time out
to serve as a student athletic trainer for the football
team prior to earning his undergraduate degree in 1945.
He served as a U.S. Army medic during World War II
After playing professional baseball and serving as Head
Athletic Trainer at the University of Florida and Texas
A&M, he returned to LSU in 1948 at the same position.
He received both a master's degree in 1960 and a
doctorate in 1967 from LSU. In 1963, Broussard was
named Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Rockne
Foundation. He was an athletic trainer for the 1955 Pan
American Games and for the U.S. Olympics in 1960.
Broussard served on the board of directors for the
National Athletic Trainers Association, an organization
he helped create, and was named to the NATA Hall of Fame
in 1978. He was then named to the Louisiana Athletic
Trainer's Hall of Fame in 1982. Broussard was
immortalized in LSU sports in 1998 when the University
named its new, state-of-the-art multimillion dollar
athletic training facility the Martin J. Broussard
Center for Athletic Training. Dr. Broussard died June
11, 2003 at the age of 84. |
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Mike Chambers, a native of
New Orleans, Louisiana was one of the first great
leaders in Athletic Training History. He pushed for
NATA organization as early as 1938. He served as the
elected President of that meeting. The meeting took
place at the Drake Relays. This effort was supported by
Charles Cramer and the Cramer Company. His first Head
Athletic Trainer position was at Georgia Tech from 1927
until 1935. During that period he participated in the
Olympics and the 1929 Rose Bowl victory by Georgia
Tech. He returned to Louisiana to serve as Head
Athletic Trainer at Louisiana State University in 1935,
a position he held until early 1943. He also worked
several all-star games in the south. One of his
protégé’s was Marty Broussard, who became the Head
Athletic Trainer at LSU. Mike Chambers was honored by
the LSU student body, when the first live tiger mascot
was named “Mike the Tiger” in his honor. He was
inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1962 and the
Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Hall of Fame in 1994. |
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Don, an native of
Ithaca, New York, left his position in 1954 as an
athletic trainer with the St. Louis Cardinals
Association to become the Head Athletic Trainer at
Florida State University until his retirement in 1986.
Don Fauls was as much concerned about the Seminole
athletes off the field or court, as he was when they
were competing and practicing. Don treated the whole
person as much as he treated the injury itself. He was
a class gentleman from Ithaca College, however the
nickname “Rooster” truly helped explained his fiery
competitiveness for the Seminoles. He worked as an
athletic trainer for the U.S. Pan American team and was
a member of the Olympic Training Selection Committee.
He was named to the NATA Hall of Fame in 1981 and The
Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida Hall of Fame
in 1995. Don was described as being one of the central
forces in the athletic program at Florida State. He was
responsible for developing an outstanding athletic
training program. On October 6, 1995, just one month
before Don’s death, the athletic training room at
Florida State was named “The Don Fauls Training Room.”
A bronze plaque at the entrance to the athletic training
room has the following inscription:
Don
Fauls has been a doctor, parent, friend and confidant to
thousands of Florida State athletes for over 27 years of
service in athletics. Seminoles everywhere join to
honor this special man in the naming of this (athletic)
training area that provided the opportunity to help so
many athletes in so many ways. Let all who enter these
doors emulate the same honesty, loyalty and integrity of
this outstanding individual.
Don Fauls died on November 9, 1995 at 75
years old. |
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R.T. Floyd is in his
thirty-fourth year of providing athletic training
services for The University of West Alabama. He
currently serves as Director of Athletic Training and
Sports Medicine for the UWA Athletic Training & Sports
Medicine Center, Program Director for the CAATE
accredited athletic training education program, and as
Chair and Professor in the Department of Physical
Education and Athletic Training. Previously, he served
on the Blue-Gray All-Star Football Classic athletic
training staff for 27 years.
A native of Montgomery, AL,
R.T. is a 1974 graduate of Lowndes Academy, where he
served as athletic trainer for all sports for four
years. He received a B.S. in Physical Education from
UWA in 1980 and a M.A.T. in Physical Education in 1982.
In 1995, he completed an Ed.D. in Human Performance
Studies at the University of Alabama.
In addition to his NATA
membership, R.T. is a Certified Strength & Conditioning
Specialist and a Certified Personal Trainer in the
National Strength and Conditioning Association. He is
also a Certified Athletic Equipment Manager in the
Athletic Equipment Managers’ Association, a member of
the American College of Sports Medicine, the American
Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the American
Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine, the American
Sports Medicine Fellowship Society, the Sports Physical
Therapy Section, and the American Alliance for Health,
and Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Additionally, he is licensed as an Emergency Medical
Technician in Alabama.
R.T. has maintained an
active career in the profession, attending every NATA
convention since 1975 and every SEATA Clinical Symposium
since the first was held in 1976, as well as numerous
other professional meetings annually. He was elected
District IX Director in the spring of 2004, and again in
2006. Through his work on the NATA Board of Directors,
he has served as liaison to four committees and two task
forces. He served two years as the NATA District IX
Chair on the NATA Research and Education Foundation
Board before being elected to his current position as
the Member Development Chair on the Board. He served as
the District IX representative to the NATA Educational
Multimedia Committee from 1988 to 2002. He served as
the Convention Site Selection Chair for District IX from
1986 to 2004 and has directed the annual SEATA
Competencies in Athletic Training Student Symposium
since 1997. He has also served as a NATA BOC examiner
for well over a decade and as a Joint Review Committee
on Educational Programs in Athletic Training site
visitor several times. Currently, he serves as the
SEATA webmaster and editor of the SEATA Newsletter
and SEATA eBlast News. He has made over a
hundred professional presentations at the local, state,
regional and national level. He is the author of the
textbook Manual of Structural Kinesiology and has
also had several articles and videos published related
to the practical aspects of athletic training.
R.T. was presented the Most
Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award by the NATA in 2003
and received the NATA Athletic Trainer Service Award in
1996. He received the District Award from SEATA in 1990
and the SEATA Award of Merit in 2001. In 1996, he was
presented the Alumni Achievement Award by the University
of West Alabama National Alumni Association in
recognition for career and civic achievements. In 1997,
the UWA Faculty and Board of Trustees recognized R.T.
for outstanding achievement in scholarship, teaching,
and leadership by presenting him with a Loraine McIlwain
Bell Trustee Professorship. In 2001, he was inducted
into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and the UWA
Athletic Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Alabama
Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in May 2004.
In 2005 he was inducted into the Iota Tau Alpha Athletic
Training Honor Society and he received the NATA Sayers
"Bud" Miller Distinguished Educator Award in 2007.
R.T. is married to the
former Lisa Neville of Butler. They have four children,
Robert Thomas, 23, Jeanna, 22, Rebecca, 20, and Kate, 9. |
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James B. (Jim) Gallaspy,
Jr., a native of Jackson, MS was born on September 8,
1948. Jim began his athletic training career serving as
a student athletic trainer at Peeples Junior High School
and Provine High School. He went to The University of
Southern Mississippi in 1966 to work under the NATA Hall
of Fame member Larry "Doc" Harrington. After graduation
from Southern Miss, Jim received employment at McArthur
High School in Hollywood, Florida as a teacher/athletic
trainer where he worked for three years and then in 1973
he enrolled at Indiana State University. After
graduating, Jim worked at Moline Senior High School as a
teacher/athletic trainer and in 1974 he returned to The
University of Southern Mississippi where he worked for
26 years and was awarded Associate Professor, Emeritus
status in 2001. Jim has been President of the
Mississippi Athletic Trainers' Association, the
Southeast Athletic Trainers' Association and served on
the NATA Board of Directors from 1994-1997. He received
the Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished Athletic Trainer
Educator Award in 1992, the SEATA District Award in
1994, and the NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer
Award in 1995. SEATA again recognized him in 1997 with
the Award of Merit. He is a member of the University of
Southern Mississippi M-Club Alumni Hall of Fame and
received the All American Football Foundation
Outstanding Athletic Trainer award in March 2000. Jim
was inducted into the
NATA Hall of Fame in 2000
and the Mississippi Athletic Trainers'
Hall of Fame in 2004. He is married to the former Sue
Barnett and they have two children Kim and Jay. |
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Chris A. Gillespie is in his
26th year at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
He is the Director of Athletic Training Education and an
Assistant Professor of Exercise Science & Sports
Medicine. He served as Head Athletic Trainer from
1982-1999 and Assistant Athletic Director for Sports
Medicine from 2000-2003. Gillespie has been the
Director of the Athletic Training Education Program
since its inception in 1985. In 1988, Samford’s program
became the first of its kind in Alabama and in a
Southeastern private institution.
Gillespie earned his
Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Mississippi
College in 1980. He earned his Master’s Degree in
Education from Northeast Louisiana in 1981.
Gillespie was President of
the SEATA from 2003-2006. He served as President of the
Alabama Athletic Trainers’ Association and on the SEATA
Executive Committee from 2001-2003. From 1995-2002, he
was a member of the NATA College and University Athletic
Trainers’ Committee and Chairman of the SEATA CUATC. In
2006 he was appointed to the Inter-Associational Task
Force on Sickle Cell Trait in Athletes. He served on
the SEATA Awards Committee from 1993-1998. In the
mid-1980’s, he was a co-founder of the SEATA Student
Symposium. Gillespie served on the Alabama Board of
Athletic Trainers from 1993-2003 and was Vice-Chairman
from 1995-2003.
Gillespie has received
numerous honors including the SEATA District Award, the
NATA Athletic Training Service Award, the SEATA
Education/Administration Award, and the 2006 NATA Most
Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. He was inducted
into the Alabama Athletic Trainers’ Hall of Fame in
2002.
In addition to his
professional responsibilities, Gillespie is the Founder
and Executive Director of TEAM 413, a ministry for
runners. Founded in 2003, TEAM 413 travels to marathons
across the country sharing their faith. Chris has run
over 40 marathons and half-marathons with TEAM 413. In
addition, he has given presentations on running injuries
to thousands of runners at marathon seminars across the
United States.
The 49-year-old native of
Pontotoc, Mississippi has two daughters, Morgan, 23,
Ashley, 21 and two step-children, Gerrit, 10 and Hanna,
8. He and his wife, Kiki, make their home in Calera,
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Robert “Bob” Goodwin, a 1963
graduate of Gulfport High School in Gulfport, MS, began
his career in 1967 as a teacher/athletic trainer at
Baker High School in Baker, LA after graduating from the
University of Southern Mississippi in the same year. In
1971, he moved to the same position at Central High
School in Baton Rouge where he continued until 1974. He
then became the Athletic Trainer at Southeastern
Louisiana University in 1974 where he remained until
retiring in 2006. Bob now works at Zelden Physical
Therapy in Covington, LA.
Bob has been very active in
the profession including working on the athletic
training staffs of the Special Olympics World Games at
LSU in 1983, the New Orleans Saints Training Camp in
1985, the Atlanta Falcons Training Camp from 1986 until
1997, co-hosting the 1992 Olympic Trails in New Orleans
and co-hosting the 1993 NCAA Track and Field
Championships in New Orleans. He has also served as the
host Athletic Trainer and Co-Chairman of the Medical
Committee for the Louisiana Special Olympic Games from
1976 to 1989, as well as the Louisiana Governor’s
Council on Physical Fitness from 1995 to 1998. Seeing
the need for athletic training education, Bob was
instrumental in the implementation of an accredited
Athletic Training Education Program at SELU and
subsequently served as a part time Instructor and
Clinical Supervisor for six years.
Bob was a charter member of
the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Association and has
served in numerous roles including Director of
Professional Education, Vice President, and President.
He was also a charter member of the Louisiana Sports
Medicine Society, which later recognized him with the
Jim Finks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sports
Medicine in 1999. He has attended 28 consecutive
Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meetings
and has also served on their Hall of Fame Committee for
26 years and the Program Committee for 10 years. He has
served on several SEATA committees including the Site
Selection Committee, College & University Athletic
Trainers Committee, the History & Archives Committee and
the Hall of Fame Committee. He has provided numerous
presentations to the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’
Association in addition to hosting the 25th Annual
Summer Symposium. He has also presented several times
at the SEATA Annual Clinical Symposium and the Annual
Athletic Training Student Symposium. From 1982 until
1998 he was a regular faculty member of the University
of Southern Mississippi’s Student Athletic Trainers
Workshop.
His contributions have been
recognized through induction into the Louisiana Athletic
Trainers Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Southeastern
Louisiana University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006.
SELU also recognized him with the Outstanding Non
Classified Employee for Service in 1999. SEATA awarded
him the District Award in 1999 and the
College/University Athletic Trainer Award in 2005. He
received the NATA 25 Year Award in 1995. |
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Jim Goostree, a diversified
college athlete, attended Southwestern at Memphis (two
years) and then the University of Tennessee while
earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in the early
1950's. A golfer at Tennessee, he evolved into an
assistant athletic trainer under legendary athletic
trainer Mickey O’Brien. He signed on as Head Athletic
Trainer at the University of Alabama in 1957, one year
before the arrival of the late Paul "Bear" Bryant. In
his long career with the Crimson Tide, Goostree served
as Head Athletic Trainer for the both the Blue-Gray
All-Star Game and the Senior Bowl for 15 seasons. In
1984, after 27 years as Head Athletic Trainer, Goostree
assumed the role of Assistant Athletic Director at the
university. In 1987, he was promoted to Executive
Athletic Director where he was instrumental in
developing the nation’s #1 donor program, Tide Pride.
He also supervised the expansion and renovation of
Bryant-Denny Stadium, the building of the Hank Crisp
Indoor Practice Facility, the renovation of Coleman
Coliseum and Paul Bryant Dormitory, and the construction
of Sewell-Thomas Stadium before he retired in 1993. He
served as District IX Secretary from 1963 to 1968. He
was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1984 and was
one of the first two inductees into the Alabama Athletic
Trainers’ Association in 1995. Jim Goostree passed away
October 19, 1999. |
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Tad Gormley, a native of
Cambridge, Massachusetts trained for the 1904 and 1906
Boston Marathon. He was brought to New Orleans in 1907
by the New Orleans Athletic Club to develop a marathon
team. He worked throughout the city as a trainer and
track coach and also trained Olympic boxers. He served
as athletic trainer at Loyola of the South University in
New Orleans. He became the first athletic trainer in
the state of Louisiana. He treated and cared for all
athletes in the crescent city. Following mass on
Sunday’s the “Gormley Games” took place in city park.
Tad served as coach, athletic trainer and organizer for
the weekly events. A huge number of great athletes from
the greater New Orleans area began careers in these
weekly events. The events were such a success and such
a part of the crescent city, that when a stadium was
added to the park, it was named in honor of Tad Gormley.
Though efforts were made by both Louisiana State
University and Tulane to obtain his services, Tad
Gormley remained a part of Loyola until his retirement
in the mid 1950’s. He was inducted into the NATA Hall
of Fame in 1962 and the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’
Hall of Fame in 1990. Tad Gormley died in 1965 at the
age of 81 near the place to which he dedicated his life
- City Park Stadium near Loyola University. |
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Al Green has been serving the
Athletic Training profession on the national, district and
state levels since attending his first NATA convention in
1970 as a freshman college student. Al received his BS
degree from the University of Michigan and his MEd from the
University of Arizona. Highlights of Mr. Green’s service
includes: Chairperson for the NATA Public Relations
Committee, member of the Board of Certification and
Convention Registration Committee, Chair District IX Public
Relations Committee, President and Vice President of the
Kentucky Athletic Trainers Society. Al started his career
as an Assistant Athletic Trainer at the University of
Michigan then spent 17 years as Head Athletic Trainer at the
University of Kentucky. Al volunteered with the USOC and
worked two Olympic Sports Festivals and the 2003 Pan
American Games. Mr. Green was the 2001 recipient of the
NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. Al served
his community as Medical Director of the Blue Grass State
Games and as a volunteer firefighter and EMT. He received
the Certificate of Valor in 1994 from the Kentucky
Department of Fire Prevention for saving two people from
their burning home. Most recently he was inducted into the
Kentucky Athletic Trainers’ Society Hall of Fame in 2007.
Al is married to fellow NATA Hall of Fame recipient, Sue
Stanley-Green. They are the first husband and wife NATA
members to be inducted into the
NATA Hall of Fame (2004). |
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David T. Green, 54, is in
his 23rd season at the helm of the Tennessee Tech
University athletic training program and soon will
celebrate his 32nd year in the profession. Beginning
his tenure at Tech as a one-man operation, he has been
the driving force behind growing the University's sports
medicine program and expanding the scope and quality of
services available to student-athletes.
David was a student athletic
trainer at Middle Tennessee State prior to earning a
Bachelor's Degree in Health, Physical Education and
Recreation in 1975. He then worked as a Graduate
Assistant Athletic Trainer at Eastern Kentucky
University before receiving his M.A. in Health Education
in 1977. After spending the next three years at Paul G.
Blazer High School in Ashland, KY he returned to EKU as
Assistant Athletic Trainer from 1980 to 1985 before
beginning his tenure at Tennessee Tech.
In 1987, he was responsible
for creating and naming the Dr. William C. Francis
Training Complex in recognition of Dr. Francis’ 30 years
as team physician.
In addition to serving on
several Tennessee Athletic Trainers' Society committees,
David served as the TATS Vice-President from 1994 to
1998 and President from 1998 to 2002, which lead to his
service on the SEATA Executive Board during the same
years. He served on the NATA Board of Certification as
a Member representing SEATA from 1981 to 1987, and was
President of the Ohio Valley Conference Athletic
Trainers’ Association in 1983, 1989, and 1991. David
has served as the SEATA Exhibits Chair and on the SEATA
Site Selection since 1993. During the 1996 Olympic
Games in Atlanta, David was a volunteer, working in the
main Athletic Training room at the Olympic Village. He
was co-host to 10,000 in attendance at the NATA Annual
Meeting and Clinical Symposium in Nashville in 2000.
Currently, he serves on the Special Awards Subcommittee
of the NATA Honors and Awards Committee.
In 1994, David was named the
Eugene Smith/Mickey O’Brien College Athletic Trainer of
the Year by TATS. In 1996, he received a NATA Athletic
Training Service Award and earned the NATA 25 Year Award
in 1997. In 2003, David was inducted into the Tennessee
Athletic Trainers' Society's (TATS) Hall of Fame and was
named NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer. In
2006, he received the TATS President’s Award of Merit.
David and his wife, Brenda,
have two daughters, Danielle (21) and Kaycee (17). |
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Frank Grimaldi, Jr. is a
board certified orthopedic surgical physician assistant
for Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic in the Orlando, FL area
transitioning to the Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute
in another month. Prior to his current career as a
PA-C, Frank worked as an athletic trainer since 1975.
He began first as a student athletic trainer, then as a
graduate assistant at Northern Illinois University,
where he graduated in 1978 with a B.S in Education, and
an M.S. in Education in 1979 . He then was an athletic
trainer at United Township High School in East Moline,
IL from 1979 to 1983, the University of Maryland from
1983 to 1989, the University of Miami from 1989 to 1993,
and Miami Sunset Senior High School in Miami, FL from
1993 to 2002. He has since earned an A.S. Degree as a
Physician Assistant from Miami-Dade College in 2004 in
Miami, FL. He also received a Masters in Medical
Science from Nova Southeastern University in 2004 in Ft.
Lauderdale.
Frank has served and
continues to serve on a number of state, district, and
national committees and boards for the athletic training
profession, including President of SEATA from 2000 to
2003, President of Athletic Trainers Association of
Florida (ATAF) from 1997 to 2001, and Board of Directors
for the Quad Cities Athletic Trainers Association from
1982 to 1983.
Frank has won a number of
athletic training awards, including induction into the
ATAF Hall of Fame in 2004, the SEATA Award of Merit in
2003, the NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award
in 2000, ATAF Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1998, NATA
Athletic Trainer Service Award in 1996, and ATAF High
School Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1994. As a
physician assistant, Frank was awarded the Distinguished
Service Award from the Miami-Dade College Physician
Assistant Program in 2004 as well as the Director’s
Leadership Award from Miami-Dade College Physician
Assistant Program in 2004.
Frank has worked at a number
of international athletic events, including the Greek
International Baseball Team for the “B” Pool
International Baseball Championships in Nagykanizsa,
Hungry in 2002 where he served as Head Athletic Trainer,
Medical staff for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA,
and athletic trainer for the 1990 Lacrosse World Cup in
Perth, Australia for the USA team. He also served as a
professional legal consultant for several medical cases
involving athletes who died from sports-related heat
illnesses.
Frank’s prior speaking
engagements include CORA Continuing Education Program
2006, ATAF Annual Symposium in 2002 and 2006, SEATA
Athletic Training Student Symposium in 2001 and 2002,
NATA National Convention in Los Angeles, CA in 2001,
high school athletic trainers clinics from 1981 to 1983
and 1992 to 1994, Career Days for high school and grade
school students from 1983 thru 1993 and Coaching Clinics
1979 thru 1982.
Frank has been married to
Mary Kay for the past 24 years; they live in Winter
Park, Florida. |
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CHARLES E.
"SMOKEY" HARPER
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After graduating from Mercer
College in 1923, Charles "Smokey" Harper became known as
one of the most prominent athletic trainers in the
Southeast Conference. From 1931 to 1936 he trained at
Vanderbilt before moving on to Florida for a short
time. Smokey also worked at UCLA for “Red” Sanders for
one year. In 1940 he returned to Vanderbilt, met Paul
"Bear" Bryant and followed the coaching legend to
Kentucky, Texas A&M and Alabama before he eventually
retired. During his career he served as a mentor to
"Rusty" Payne at Kentucky, and to Billy Pickard, Roy Don
Wilson and Jerry Rhea at Texas A&M. He was regarded by
his fellow athletic trainers and students as a nice and
very practical man. Coach Bryant commented that he
could read people better than anyone he ever had on his
staff. |
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Earnest "Doc" Harrington was
born in Hattiesburg, MS in 1931. After spending one
year as an undergraduate at Tulane he returned to his
hometown and the University of Southern Mississippi. He
began his tenure as the Head Athletic Trainer at
Southern Miss in 1958 through his retirement in 1994.
During his tenure in Hattiesburg he also served as the
school’s tennis coach and equipment manager. In
addition to holding a doctorate in education, Doc was a
licensed Physical Therapist and a Colonel in the U.S.
Army Reserves. Doc also served for a number of years
beginning in 1960 as the Head Athletic Trainer for the
Senior Bowl. He was the first director and project
coordinator for the nationally approved Athletic
Training Specialization program at the University of
Southern Mississippi and has had a number of articles
published over the years. He is a member of the
National Football Foundation Sports Hall of Fame and the
USM M-Club Alumni Hall of Fame. He was a 1987 inductee
into the NATA Hall of Fame and was inducted with the
first class of inductees into the Mississippi Athletic
Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2003. Doc
received the NATA 50 Year Award in 2006. |
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Since his days as an
athletic trainer for the old Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball
Organization, Eugene "Doc" Harvey has continuously
enhanced his skills as a dedicated rehabilitation
specialist. Before moving to Brooklyn, and later Los
Angeles when the Dodgers moved west, Doc served as an
athletic trainer in Pueblo, Colorado, and Montreal,
Canada. He was known as a hard worker who kept his
players in excellent condition. He served under
legendary Coach Eddie Robinson and was an integral part
of numerous Southwestern Athletic Conference
Championships both during and since Coach Robinson’s
tenure. Doc supervised the Grambling State University
athletic training and rehabilitative facility, ranked as
one of the best in Division I-AA until his retirement
1998. He continues to work part time at Grambling as
Coordinator in Sports Medicine during football season.
He owns and operates a private therapy clinic working
with a number of physicians and hospitals in Grambling.
Doc was inducted into the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’
Association Hall of Fame in 1982 and the NATA Hall of
Fame in 1986. He received the NATA 50 Year Award in
2005. |
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MaryBeth Horodyski, EdD, ATC
has a long history of service to the athletic training
profession. Beginning as a regional representative for
NYATA, MaryBeth has been active in the NATA for 27
years, with 16 of those years in both SEATA and ATAF.
She has served on the SEATA Executive Board for 11
years, and has represented SEATA as President of
District IX since 2006. Her extensive leadership in
SEATA includes serving as co-chair for the Research and
Education Committee (3 years), SEATA Secretary/Treasurer
(5 years), and SEATA Treasurer (4 years). Nationally,
MaryBeth has served 7 years on the NATA Graduate
Education Committee, the Secretary/Treasurer Committee
(9 years), and served on the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Athletic Training. She has also served
as Florida’s Research and Education Foundation State
Representative (6 years), and was selected as Public
Relations Chair for the NATA Research and Education
Foundation.
Both her peers and the
public have recognized MaryBeth for her contributions.
She is a recipient of the SEATA Award of Merit (2006)
and the SEATA District IX Award (2002). She has been
awarded the NATA Service Award (2000), the ATAF
College/Professional Athletic Trainer of the Year Award
(1997), the Bronze Gator Award for community service
from the Gainesville Sports Organizing Committee (1997),
and the Superior Civilian Service Award, and Medal from
the US Government (1992). In 2004 she was honored with
the NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award and
was inducted into the ATAF Hall of Fame.
She graduated from Lock
Haven University (PA) in 1982 with a B.S. in HPERD and
Athletic Training. She completed her master’s degree in
exercise physiology at Iowa State University while
working as an athletic trainer for the Athletic
Department. MaryBeth then served at the US Military
Academy, West Point, NY for eight years, first as
Assistant Athletic Trainer and later as Head Athletic
Trainer in the Department of Physical Education. While
at West Point, she earned an Ed.D. in applied human
physiology at Columbia University.
In 1992, MaryBeth joined the
University of Florida faculty in the Department of
Exercise and Sport Sciences, where she served as
Director of the Graduate Athletic Training Program and
was the Director of the Athletic Training/Sports
Medicine Outreach Program, which serviced 12 high
schools, a community college, a community/industrial
setting, and 2 campus locations. MaryBeth’s strong
interest in research led her to collaborations with
faculty from the Department of Orthopaedics and
Rehabilitation, which resulted in a joint appointment in
that Department in 1997. In August 2002, she accepted
the position of Director of Research for the Department
of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and a joint
appointment with the Department of Physical Therapy. In
addition to facilitating research for all the faculty in
her Department, she supervises research for orthopaedic
residents, and continues her own research. Recently
funded studies have compared techniques for moving a
spine-injured athlete and ways to prevent heat illness
in football players performing in a warm environment.
MaryBeth has coauthored or edited three books and has
published 57 papers in peer-reviewed publications. She
was an author on approximately 120 abstracts presented
at professional conferences and has delivered 20
additional speeches or seminars at the national and
international level. Dr. Horodyski is a frequent
speaker for the SEATA Athletic Training Student
Symposium (15 years, 25 presentations), NATA symposiums,
and numerous other professional organizations.
MaryBeth has served as an
athletic trainer in settings as diverse as high school,
college (Divisions I and III), and the military. As a
supervisor, she has mentored over 130 certified athletic
trainers in these arenas and in industrial settings.
For over 20 years, MaryBeth has served her local
communities in roles such as Medical Coordinator for the
Florida High School State Track Meet (4 years), Florida
High School State Football Championships (3 years),
Florida Sunshine State Games (2 years), and the Florida
Special Olympics (1 year).
MaryBeth and her husband,
Bob, reside in Gainesville, FL with their three
children: Nicole (age 20), Bobby (age 17,) and Jonathan
(age 10). |
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Milford "Kenny" Howard, born
in Crossville, Alabama went to Alabama Polytechnic
Institute (now Auburn University) to study Agriculture,
but got a job as student athletic trainer under
legendary trainer and track coach Wilbur Hutsell. Upon
graduation in 1948, Howard was named Head Athletic
Trainer, a post held until 1976. From 1976 through 1980
he served Auburn as its first Assistant Athletics
Director for Olympic Sports. After retiring from Auburn
in 1980 he went to work as Director of Sports Relations
for the Hughston Sports Medicine Foundation, Inc., and
continued until his retirement in 1995. While serving
as Auburn's Head Athletic Trainer, Kenny became the
confidant of Head Football Coach Ralph Jordan. That
friendship led to Dr. Jack Hughston becoming Auburn's
Orthopedic Surgeon and Team Physician for the next 40
years. Kenny was the athletic trainer for the U.S.
Olympic Track team at Helsinki in 1952 and for the 1976
U.S. Olympic Swim team in Montreal. He also served as
head athletic trainer for the World University Games on
two occasions. He was the athletic trainer for the
Blue-Gray Game for ten consecutive years and the Senior
Bowl for two years. Kenny served as District IX
Director from 1959 to 1960 and was the first athletic
trainer inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Kenny is a member of the NATA Hall of Fame, the Alabama
Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame, and the
Hughston Society. In 2005, Kenny received the American
Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Distinguished
Service Athletic Trainer Award and the NATA 50 Year
Award. He is married to the former Jeanne Barnhart and
they have three sons and daughter. Jeanne and Kenny
continue to reside in Auburn. |
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THOMAS "TIM" KERIN
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Thomas "Tim" Kerin graduated
from Westinghouse Memorial High School in Wilmerding, PA
in 1965 and received his B.S. from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania in 1969. After graduation, Tim began as
the Head Athletic Trainer and math instructor at Penn
Hills High School in Pittsburgh. In 1972 Tim was
awarded an M.S. in mathematics from Indiana University
of PA and became Head Athletic Trainer and an Associate
Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He received
an M.Ed. in Physiology of Exercise from Pittsburgh in
1976. Tim became the Head Athletic Trainer at the
University of Tennessee in 1977 and helped the football
team achieve seven victories in 11 bowl appearances
before his death in 1992. Tim served on the NATA's
Program and Convention Committees from 1979 to 1991. He
was SEATA's Awards Committee Chair from 1988 until
1992. He served on the athletic training staffs of over
two dozen local, regional and national athletic events
and was extremely active in the community. In 1986 he
was a founding member of Knoxville's Metropolitan Drug
Commission and served as its president from 1987 to
1989. Tim received a Chancellor's Citation from the
University of Tennessee in 1990 and the SEATA Award of
Merit in 1991. The Tim Kerin Sports Medicine Facility
at Tennessee was named in his honor in 1993. He
was inducted into the
NATA Hall of Fame in 1993. Tim was
named the Eugene Smith/Mickey O’Brien College Athletic
Trainer of the Year by the Tennessee Athletic Trainer's
Society in 1993 and inducted into their Hall of Fame in
1994. Tim was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall
of Fame in 2001. One of the highest awards given by the
NATA annually is the Tim Kerin Award. |
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Born in
Hopkinsville, Ky., Chuck Kimmel grew up in Frankfort, KY
where he graduated from Franklin County High School in
1972. He served as a student athletic trainer for the
University of Kentucky football team for three seasons
and for the Wildcats' 1976 NIT basketball championship
club his senior season in 1976. He then moved to East
Tennessee State University where he earned his master's
degree and later became a full-time Assistant Athletic
Trainer before being only the second athletic trainer
hired by Austin Peay State University in 1981. He
quickly built one of the most respected athletic
training programs in the region. For years, Cramer
Products, the industry leader in sports medicine
supplies, chose Austin Peay as host to the annual
Student Athletic Training Workshops. In 1990, Chuck was
appointed APSU's assistant athletics director.
At the same time, Chuck was
becoming one of the leaders in his profession. Chuck
served as Exhibits Chairman for SEATA from 1981 to 1992,
and also served as President of the Tennessee Athletic
Trainers' Society (TATS) from 1989-93. In 1992, he was
elected Secretary/Treasurer by SEATA and served in that
position to 1997 when he began a three year term as
SEATA President. In 2000, he began the first of two
terms as the District IX Director. He was elected NATA
Secretary/Treasurer in 2001, and chaired NATA’s Finance
and Investment Committees. He was also Board liaison to
the College/University Athletic Trainers’,
College/University Student Athletic Trainers’ and
Convention committees. He served as Co-Chair of the
Host Committee for the 2000 NATA Convention in
Nashville. Chuck began his first term as NATA President
in 2004, and will complete his second term in June 2008.
In 1988, Chuck was
recognized with the District Award from SEATA. TATS
selected him as the Eugene Smith/Mickey O’Brien College
Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1991. The NATA provided
Chuck with the Athletic Training Service Award in 1997,
the 25 Year Award in 1999, and named him NATA Most
Distinguished Athletic Trainer in 2002. In January
2002, Chuck was inducted into the TATS Hall of Fame, and
in 2005, received the President’s Award of Merit from
TATS. In 2005, he received the SEATA Award of Merit and
was inducted into the Austin Peay State University
Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006.
Chuck retired from Austin
Peay in 2007, and accepted the position of Injury Clinic
Director and Instructor for Appalachian State University
in Boone, North Carolina. He and his wife, Patty, have
three grown children, Chad, Meredith and Adam. |
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A native of Morgan,
Minnesota and graduate of Indiana University, Dean
Kleinschmidt joined the New Orleans Saints as an
Assistant Athletic Trainer in 1969 under Warren Arial
and was promoted to Head Athletic Trainer in 1971 where
he remained until 2001. He also coordinated all sports
medicine efforts at the Senior Bowl All-Star Game in
Mobile, Ala., since 1971. In 2001-02 he served as the
administrative director at East Jefferson General
Hospital Wellness Center in Metairie, La. before
spending the 2002 and 2003 seasons as the Washington
Redskins' Head Athletic Trainer. Dean is now in his
third season as Indiana University’s Head Athletic
Trainer for football. He served three terms as
President of the Professional Athletic Trainers' Society
after serving on their Executive Committee for 12
years. He was named "Professional Athletic Trainer of
the Year" in 1986, and he and assistant Kevin Mangum
were honored as the "NFL Athletic Training Staff of the
Year" following the 1986 season. In 1991, he was the
local host of the annual NATA Clinical Symposium in New
Orleans and served several years on the NATA Foundation
Scholarship Committee. Dean served as Chairman of
Medical Support for the 1992 Olympic Track Trials in New
Orleans. He received the SEATA Award of Merit in 1992.
He was inducted into the Louisiana Athletic Trainers'
Association Hall of Fame in 1990, the
NATA Hall of Fame
in 1994 and named to the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
in 2002. In the same year Dean received the Tim Kerin
Award for Excellence in Athletic Training from the NATA
and was awarded the National College Football Foundation
Athletic Trainer of the Year in 2003. |
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Doc Knight served the
University of Mississippi for almost 28 years before his
retirement in 1975. A 1935 graduate of Springfield
College with a BS degree in Health and Physical
Education, Knight went to New York City to study at the
Eastern School of Physiotherapy and at Bellevue
Hospital. After completing his higher education, Doc
Knight served as a “trainer”, physical education
instructor and assistant track coach at several
institutions before beginning his almost three decade
long career at ‘Ole Miss. Wes Knight was known for his
fiery competitive spirit as exhibited by his pregame
speeches to the team prior to Ole Miss Football Games.
There was never any doubt about his caring for the many
Rebel athletes he treated and loved. Many still
remember and cherish the preseason letters taped to
their lockers prior to August practice. While at ‘Ole
Miss Doc Knight was not only the athletic trainer, but a
very successful track coach as well. Knight produced
several unbeaten teams and his squads produced several
school records. Furthermore, Knight served as the
President of the SEC Athletic Trainers Association and
member of the NATA Board of Directors for District IX
from 1961 to 1963. His greatest accolade came in 1969
when he was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame, the
same association in which he was a charter member.
After his retirement he was given the honor of “Trainer”
Emeritus at ‘Ole Miss and was active in the coaching
ranks for the Special Olympics. He was inducted into
the University of Mississippi Athletic Hall of Fame in
1988 and the Mississippi Athletic Trainers’ Association
Hall of Fame in 2003. Doc Knight, 74, died in 1983. |
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Samuel Lankford was associated
with athletic training, professional publications, and
related activities since 1930. Before coming to
Virginia Tech in 1963 as head athletic trainer, Lankford
spent 12 years at the University of Florida in the same
position. For several years Lankford was the athletic
training editor of the National Athletic Journal. Among
his professional contributions are two books and
numerous articles on athletic training and
conditioning. He also developed, manufactured, and sold
an adherent in the early 60's called Tough Gator. He
represented District IX on the NATA Board of Directors
from 1955 to 1957. He also served as District IX
Secretary from 1955 to 1957 and from 1959 to 1963. |
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A native of Marietta, Ohio,
Donald D. Lowe earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees
from Kent State University, where he also served as a
Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer in 1965, Assistant
Athletic Trainer 1966-1969, and Head Athletic Trainer
from 1969-1975. Mr. Lowe was the Coordinator of Sports
Medicine at Syracuse University from 1975-2000. He
served the greater Syracuse community and the Central
New York region by creating the organizational structure
and becoming the Executive Director of Onondaga Sports
Medicine Clinics in 1986. Mr. Lowe served as the
Director of Sports Medicine at Georgia Tech from
2000-2002. He has a multitude of U.S.O.C. experience,
highlighted by his services as the Men’s Basketball
Athletic Trainer in the 1983 Pan American Games, and on
the U.S. Olympic Training Staff at the 1992 Summer
Olympic Games in Barcelona. Mr. Lowe served the NATA on
various committees and was Secretary of District 2 from
1982-1992. Mr. Lowe, along with other New York State
ATCs, was instrumental in forming the New York State
Athletic Trainers’ Association and served as its
President from 1984-1986; Empire State Games host
athletic trainer, as well as helping to obtain
professional regulation of athletic trainers in New York
State. In 1992 Mr. Lowe was instrumental in the
formation of the College Athletic Trainers Society. He
has received many awards for his outstanding service,
highlighted by his 1983 Thomas Sheehan Award for Most
Outstanding Athletic Trainer in New York State, National
Collegiate Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1986, Eastern
Athletic Trainers’ Association “Cramer’s Excellence
Award” in 1991, NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer
in 1995, and the
NATA Hall of Fame in 1999. |
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Werner "Dutch" Luchsinger was
associated with sports in the southern section of the
U.S. for 48 years. Dutch was a native of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and studied at State Teachers College in
Milwaukee before attending Tulane University. He was a
three sport standout in football, baseball, and track at
Tulane prior to earning his degree in 1930. After
graduation, Luchsinger, better known as “Dutch”, served
as Athletic Director at Fortier High School in New
Orleans from 1930 until 1941. From 1941 to 1943 he
served as Physical Training Director at Keesler Field.
In 1949 Dutch began his role as Mississippi State’s Head
Athletic Trainer and continued until his retirement in
1965. He served as an Olympic athletic trainer in
1960. Dutch later worked as Athletic Trainer with the
New Orleans Buccaneers an American Basketball
Association franchise. During his tenure in Starkville,
he became the first elected Director of District IX in
1950. He represented District IX on the NATA Board of
Directors from 1951 to 1953 in addition to serving as
the President for the SEC athletic trainers. Dutch was
inducted in to the NATA Hall of Fame in 1967 and the
Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame in
1983. He was inducted into the Mississippi State
University Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. Later, in 2003,
he was in the first class of inductees into the
Mississippi Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. |
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As Head Athletic Trainer at
Georgia Thomas "Fitz" Lutz was instrumental in saving a
season for the star of the team and keeping the Bulldogs
rolling through "The Golden Era" of great Georgia teams. He
served at Georgia from 1938 to 1942. He invented and
patented a special face mask for the Bulldogs' star, Frankie
Sinkwich, enabling him to play the entire season with a
fractured jaw. He was one of the first athletic trainers to
make custom molded mouthpieces, by applying a layer of latex
a day, then starting the process over again each week on
Monday after the players chewed them up during the games.
Lutz eventually became the Baltimore Colts head athletic
trainer for three seasons before going to the University of
North Carolina in 1950. Lutz died four years later in
Chapel Hill at the age of 44. |
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James H. “Jim” Mackie graduated
from the University of Florida with a degree in Physical
Education in 1974 and received a Masters degree in Education
with an emphasis in School Health from Eastern Kentucky
University in 1975. He was certified as an Athletic Trainer
from the National Athletic Trainers Association in 1975, and
licensed by the State of Florida in 1995.
His work experience includes:
Assistant Athletic Trainer at the University of Florida
(1975-1988); Braintree Hospital Outpatient & Sports Medicine
and Brockton High School (1988 – 1992); Riverside Hospital &
Baptist \ St. Vincent’s Health System (1992-1999); and
HealthSouth Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine (2000-
2002). He returned to St. Vincent’s Rehab & Sports Medicine
in the fall of 2002, where he currently serves as an
Athletic Trainer. He served as a volunte | |
