Gulf South Conference Hall of Fame
School: West Alabama | Sport: Athletic Training
Category: Administrator (1974-Present)
Spent nearly five decades providing athletic training services to UWA student-athletes … Served as UWA Head Athletic Trainer from 1974-1998 … Named the university’s Athletic Training & Sports Medicine Center Program Director in 1986, and tabbed as Chair of School of Health Sciences and Human Performance in 2017 … Authored Manual of Structural Kinesiology, a textbook that is used in college classrooms across the country … Former member of National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Board of Directors … Became the first NATA member elected to serve simultaneously on NATA and NATA Research and Education Foundation Board of Directors … Served as NATA Foundation President from 2014-18 … Inducted into NATA Hall of Fame in 2013 and presented NATA Lifetime Contribution Award in 2018 … Graduated from UWA with bachelors (1980) and masters (1982), and received his doctorate in 1995.