Southeast Athletic Trainers Association

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Southeast AthleticTrainers Association

• The 2007
• Tim Kerin Memorial Awards Banquet

and SEATA Hall of Fame Induction
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Mike Chambers

• 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 protégés 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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Tad Gormley

• 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 Sundays 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 1950s.
  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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Thomas F. Lutz

• 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 Georgiafrom
  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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Frank Mann

• Frank (Skipper) Mann served for almost 25 years
  as athletic trainer at the University of
  Kentucky. He dedicated his life to fulfilling
  the need for qualified athletic trainers in the
  work of college sports. He was considered by
  historians to be one of the forefathers of
  modern athletic training. He attended Chicago
  University in 1903, completed a full course in
  the art of handling the physical injuries and
  mental stresses of athletes and began his
  student trainer position. In 1906, he accepted
  an athletic training position at the University
  of Indiana where he remained until he accepted a
  position at Iowa in 1910. Frank Mann worked at
  Iowa in the capacity of athletic trainer from
  1910 to 1914 before moving to Kentucky where
  worked until his retirement in 1950. During his
  almost 50 years of experience and contributions,
  he became known as one of the nation's most
  prominent athletic trainers. In 1962, he was one
  of the original inductees to the Helm's Hall of
  Fame for athletic trainers. Mann died in 1957 at
  the age of 70.

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Claude Big Monk Simons, Sr.

• Claude "Big Monk" Simons has gone down in
  history as one of the great names in
  intercollegiate athletics.Claude and his younger
  brother known as Little Monk were a part of
  Tulane Athletics during the 1930s and the
  1940s. Both played football for the Green Wave.
  Simons also served as head coach in basketball,
  baseball, track and boxing while at Tulane.
  Simons was president of the Southern Amateur
  Athletic Union and had Tulane's Olympic-size
  pool named in his honor. Claude was a part of
  the transition from coach to athletic trainer in
  the very early years of the profession. He began
  to assume more and more of the duties that we
  associate with the Athletic Trainer. Monks
  efforts lead to the formal position of an
  athletic trainer. He fulfilled these duties for
  several years serving as the Head Athletic
  Trainer at Tulane University from 1921 until his
  death in 1943. He left a set up that served as a
  setting for Spike Dixon and Bubba Porche, both
  NATA Hall of Fame Members. Claude was inducted
  into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1962 and the
  Louisiana Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame in 1998.

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Frank Wandle

• Frank Wandle was athletic trainer at Army, Yale
  and served two years at Louisiana State
  University before retiring. Dates are not
  available but he was inducted into the NATA Hall
  of Fame in 1962.

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Mickey OBrien

• Mickey O'Brien went to work for the University
  of Tennessee in 1938 - just in time to help with
  three successive unbeaten seasons and trips to
  bowl games. He served as a jack-of-all-trades
  for the Vol program. In addition to being Head
  Athletic Trainer for all sports teams, he was in
  charge of the training table, oversaw the
  equipment and laundry operations, and served as
  chief recruiter in Chattanooga, North Carolina
  and Florida. O'Brien was designated Trainer
  Emeritus in 1977 for the Volunteers' football
  team and served under five football coaches at
  Tennessee, beginning with Gen. Bob Neyland.
  Experts in sports medicine regarded O'Brien as
  one of the premier college athletic trainers. He
  served as a mentor to various athletic trainers
  including NATA Hall of Fame members Jim Goostree
  and Chris Patrick. He helped form the
  Southeastern Conference Trainers Association and
  served as its first president. He died October
  24, 1986 in Knoxville. Tennessee at age 79.

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Charles E. Smokey Harper

• 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 AM 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
  AM. 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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W. J. Dutch Luchsinger

• 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 States 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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Wesley Doc Knight

• 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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Sam Lankford

• 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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Martin J. Broussard

• 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 AM, 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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Earl J. Bubba Porche

• Tulane had one of the nation's finest athletic
  trainers in the person of Earl "Bubba" Porche.
  In addition to his duties as athletic trainer at
  the Blue-Gray game, Porche served as athletic
  trainer for the U.S. Track Team that competed in
  three meets in Europe in 1967 and was an
  athletic trainer at the Pan-American Games in
  1971. Porche came to Tulane from the Navy in
  1946 as Assistant Athletic Trainer. He was
  subsequently named Head Athletic Trainer, a post
  he held for 36 years. Bubba served as District
  IX Secretary from 1957 to 1959 and then
  represented District IX on the NATA Board of
  Directors from 1965 to 1967. He was inducted
  into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Tulane
  Hall of Fame in 1982. The Louisiana Athletic
  Trainers Association inducted him into their
  Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1986 established the
  Bubba Porche Award to recognize outstanding High
  School and Collegiate Athletic Training Students
  each year. Tulane further honored Bubba by
  naming their primary medical treatment facility
  for all Tulane student-athletes The Earl "Bubba"
  Porche Athletic Training Room.

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Don Fauls

• 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 Dons
  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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Jim Goostree

• 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 OBrien. 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 nations 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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Joe Worden

• After graduating from Pfugerville High School in
  Texas, Joe Worden attended the University of
  Texas in Austin where he completed a B.S. in
  Physical Education and a Masters Degree in
  Education. While there, he first became
  interested in the care and prevention of
  athletic injuries and had the unique opportunity
  to train under the legendary Frank Medina, a
  former U.S. Olympic Trainer. Joe was a member
  of the U.S. Marine Corps and saw action in Guam
  and the Marshall Islands during World War II. He
  became Vanderbilts head athletic trainer in
  1949 and handled all sports until 1971 when he
  was assigned to specialize in football and mens
  basketball. He continued to assist club sports,
  and in 1977 began working with the newly created
  womens intercollegiate athletic program. He
  officially retired at Vanderbilt in 1986, but
  continued to volunteer his services and never
  missed a game until his death on June 5, 1998.
  Affectionately referred to as Joe Bird, he was
  one of the most respected and beloved staff
  members in the history of Vanderbilt Athletics.
  He represented District IX on the NATA Board of
  Directors from 1964 to 1965. He was inducted into
  the NATA Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Tennessee
  Athletic Trainers Society Hall of Fame in 1994.
  Two highly regarded awards have been named for
  him the Joe Worden Clinic/Professional Athletic
  Trainer of the Year Award given by the Tennessee
  Athletic Trainers Society and the Joe L. Worden
  Courage Award presented by the Middle Tennessee
  Chapter of the National Football Foundation and
  College Hall of Fame. Joe was inducted in the
  Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in February 2004.

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Henry Buck Andel

• 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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Sandy Sandlin

• Sandy, a native of Huntsville, Alabama, moved to
  Chattanooga at 14 and never left the valley he
  loved. Lee Jensen, the Chattanooga Lookouts
  athletic trainer, saw Sandy with his gentle
  manner mending the wing of a fallen bird. Jensen
  said, If you can do that, come help me with the
  Lookout players. Sandy began his career as an
  athletic trainer in the early 1930s with the
  Chattanooga Lookouts in the Southern League and
  in 1935 became the athletic trainer for the
  baseball team. Sandy Sandlin was Head Athletic
  Trainer at the University of Chattanooga from
  1938 until 1975, during which time he also spent
  1943-45 as athletic trainer at Georgia Tech. An
  All-Star Athletic Trainer for the Southern
  Baseball League, Sandy moved from the University
  of Chattanooga to The Baylor School in 1975 to
  serve as head athletic trainer until 1979.
  According to peers, He was one of the most
  straight-forward, compassionate, and gentle
  individuals one could meet. We never met such a
  sincere and dedicated man. In 1973 he was
  inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of
  Fameat a time few non-athletes were chosen. He
  received the NATA 25 Year Award in 1974 and was
  inducted posthumously into the NATA Hall of Fame
  in 1987. In 1994 Sandy was inducted into the
  Tennessee Athletic Trainers Society Hall of Fame
  which further honored him with the establishment
  of the annual Sandy Sandlin High School Athletic
  Trainer of the Year Award.

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Charlie Martin

• Charlie Martin received his undergraduate and
  masters degrees from the University of Oklahoma,
  after being discharged from the Army. He was
  the Head Athletic Trainer at Baltimore Junior
  College and then at Northeast Louisiana
  University, where he worked for nearly 25 years.
  Charlie received the 25-year award from the
  NATA and was elected to the Louisiana Athletic
  Trainers' Association Hall of Fame in 1984. He
  was a founding father of the Louisiana Athletic
  Trainers Association. Charlie is best known for
  his pioneering research on the effects of heat
  and humidity in athletes. His writings on the
  topic were published numerous times throughout
  his career. Charlie was also an expert on the
  topic of drug testing. He traveled extensively
  around the nation and throughout the world,
  including Taiwan, The Netherlands and Belgium,
  lecturing on these topics, sharing the benefits
  of his pioneering work. Charlie will be
  remembered as an outstanding ambassador for the
  athletic training profession and his work will be
  missed. Charlie Martin, 54, died July 21, 1988.

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Thomas Tim Kerin

• 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. Tim was named the Eugene
  Smith/Mickey OBrien College Athletic Trainer of
  the Year by the Tennessee Athletic Trainer's
  Society in 1993and 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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Kenny Howard

• Milford "Kenny" Howard, born in Crossville,
  Alabama went to Alabama Polytechnic Institute
  (now Auburn University) to study Agriculture, but
  gota 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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Warren Morris

• Warren Morris learned athletic training from two
  of the professions most notable athletic
  trainers - A.D. Dickinson of Northern Iowa
  University and Alfred Duke Wyre at the
  University of Maryland where he received his
  M.Ed . From that solid background, Morris first
  served as an assistant at the University of
  Maryland, then served as an assistant at the
  University of North Carolina before he was named
  Head Athletic Trainer at the University of
  Georgia in 1965. He served as District IX
  ViceDirector from 1967 to 1971 then as District
  Director from 1971 to 1973. Morris has also
  been the NATAs representative on the NCAA
  Football Rules Committee and the Secretary and
  Representative on the Joint Commission for
  Science and Sports. He has been, and remains,
  committed to athletic training efforts in Georgia
  as well he was the first athletic trainer to be
  licensed in Georgia and has held the position of
  Chair of the Georgia Board of Athletic Trainers,
  a governor appointed position, for 25 years since
  1980. He was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame
  in 1981 and received the AOSSM Distinguished
  Service Award in 1986. Warren was an inductee in
  the inaugural Georgia Athletic Trainers
  Association Hall of Fame in 2004 which also
  honored him with an annual award in his name, the
  Warren Morris Sports Medicine Person of the Year
  Award.

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Jerry Rhea

• Jerry Rhea entered the athletic training
  profession in 1956 while a student at Texas AM
  working under NATA Hall of Fame member Smokey
  Harper before graduating in 1958. Jerry worked
  eight years in the Odessa (Texas) Schools, where
  he was Head Athletic Trainer before serving the
  Los Angeles Rams as Assistant Athletic Trainer
  for 2 years. Jerry was the Head Athletic
  Trainer for the Atlanta Falcons from 1969 until
  1994 and was a frequent convention and clinic
  speaker. From 1994 to 2001 he worked as
  Assistant to the President of the Falcons.
  During this time he also served as President of
  the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation. He was
  elected President of SEATA in 1982 and became
  District IX Director in 1984. He was then
  elected president of the NATA for 1986-88 and
  served on many NATA committees. Jerry was named
  the NATA Professional Athletic Trainer of the
  Year by Nutrament in 1979 and 1982. He was
  inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1985 and
  the Southwest Athletic Trainers Association Hall
  of Fame in 1987. He received the SEATA Award of
  Merit in 1988 and the American Orthopaedic
  Society for Sports Medicine Distinguished Service
  Athletic Trainer Award in 1991. In 2001 he
  received the Tim Kerin Excellence in Athletic
  Training Award. Jerry was a 2004 inductee in the
  inaugural Georgia Athletic Trainers Association
  Hall of Fame which also honored him with an
  annual award in his name, the Jerry Rhea Athletic
  Trainer of the Year Award. The Atlanta Falcons
  furthered honored Jerry by endowing an NATA
  Foundation Scholarship and as well as both an
  undergraduate and graduate SEATA Scholarship in
  his name.

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Eugene Doc Harvey

• 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
  Robinsons 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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Larry Doc Harrington, Sr.

• 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 alsoserved as the
  schools 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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J. Lindsy McLean

• Lindsy McLean began his career as a student at
  Vanderbilt University under Joe Worden in 1956.
  By 1963, he had earned the position of Head
  Athletic Trainer and Director of Physical
  Therapy at the University of California, Santa
  Barbara, and was named Head Athletic Trainer and
  Instructor at San Jose State College in 1965.
  In 1968, he was named Head Athletic Trainer at
  The University of Michigan. In 1979, he became
  Head Athletic Trainer of the San Francisco Forty
  Niners and served there until his retirement in
  2003. Lindsy has served as a USOC Olympic Team
  Athletic Trainer in 1976 and was the Nutrament
  Collegiate Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1976.
  He has served the NATA on the Grants and
  Scholarship Committee, the 50th Anniversary
  Taskforce, and the Honors and Awards Committee
  where he helped establish the Most Distinguished
  Athletic Trainer Award. Perhaps he will best be
  remembered for his work with the Professional
  Advancement Committee where he served at the
  first Chair of the Certification Committee and
  the Board of Certification when, under his
  guidance, the NATA Certification program was
  established and implemented. He returned to
  Tennessee to retire in 2005.

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Chris Patrick, Jr.

• Chris Patrick began his athletic training career
  while pursuing his undergraduate degree at the
  University of Tennessee. After receiving his
  masters degree at Eastern Kentucky, Chris went
  on to serve as an athletic trainer at several
  major universities, ultimately taking over the
  position of Head Athletic Trainer at the
  University of Florida in 1970, where he
  continues today as Assistant Athletic Director
  for Sports Health. Chris has enjoyed several
  professional distinctions, including becoming a
  consultant for Bike, Johnson Johnson and Nike
  and receiving the Nutrament College Trainer of
  the Year Award. Indicative of his commitment to
  community involvement, Chris was elected
  Volunteer of the Year by the Gainesville,
  Florida Boys Club in 1977. Among many other
  positions with the NATA, Chris represented
  District IX as a member of the NATA Board of
  Directors from 1967 to 1971. Chris' work within
  the profession and in his local community has
  helped to broaden and enhance the image of
  athletic training. He received the SEATA Award
  of Merit in 1989, the same year as his NATA Hall
  of Fame induction. He received the Tim Kerin
  Award for Excellence in Athletic Training from
  the NATA in 2000. Chris was inducted into The
  Athletic Trainers Association of Florida in 1995
  and received the American Orthopaedic Society for
  Sports Medicine Distinguished Service Athletic
  Trainer Award in 2006. He is a member of the
  University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame and
  serves on Aegis Analytical Laboratories Client
  Advisory Board.

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Dean L. Kleinschmidt

• 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 Universitys 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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Robert M. Bobby Barton

• Bobby Barton earned a bachelors degree from the
  University of Kentucky in 1968, a masters
  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
  NATAs 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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Don Lowe

• A native of Marietta, Ohio, Donald D. Lowe
  earned a Bachelors and Masters 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 Mens 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
  Cramers Excellence Award in 1991, NATA Most
  Distinguished Athletic Trainer in 1995, and the
  NATA Hall of Fame in 1999.

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James Douglas "Doug" May

• James Douglas "Doug" May began his career as a
  student athletic trainer working with Wes Knight
  at the University of Mississippi in 1967. He
  has served as a certified athletic trainer at
  Florida State University, Tennessee Technological
  University, Mississippi State University,
  Mississippi University of Women, the University
  of Tennessee at Chattanooga and, most recently,
  at the McCallie School of Chattanooga, TN. May
  has served as Vice-President of the NATA and as
  District IX Director. In addition, he is a
  former District IX President and
  Secretary/Treasurer. May is a charter member of
  the Mississippi Athletic Trainers' Association
  and served as its first president. He is a
  co-author of the book Signs and Symptoms of
  Athletic Injuries. He served as a member of the
  medical staff for the 1991 Pan American Games in
  Cuba, the 1991 World Winter University Games in
  Japan, and the medical team for the 1996 track
  and field venue of the Atlanta Olympic Games. In
  1990 Doug received the SEATA Award of Merit. He
  received the Sandy Sandlin High School Athletic
  Trainer of the Year Award from the Tennessee
  Athletic Trainers Society in 1990 and was
  inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1998. He was
  recognized as Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer
  in 1995 by the NATA and was inducted into the
  NATA Hall of Fame in 1999.

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James Jim B. Gallaspy, Jr.

• 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 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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John "Jack" Redgren

• Jack Redgren was born in the small town of
  Winnebago, Minnesota in 1942. He graduated from
  the University of Montana in 1964 and served in
  the United States Army from 1965-1967. After
  leaving the armed services, Jack graduated from
  the Mayo Clinic School of Physical Therapy in
  1969. His first job as an athletic trainer was
  working under fellow hall of famer Lindsy McLean
  at the University of Michigan for two years.
  From there, Jack moved south to Vanderbilt
  University where he served for 10 years. Since
  1981, Jack has worked in the private sector
  treating varsity, professional and recreational
  athletes. A pioneer in the field of athletic
  training education, Jack served the NATA
  Professional Education Committee for 17 years and
  enjoyed every minute of it. Jack received the
  Joe Worden Clinic/Professional Athletic Trainer
  of the Year from the Tennessee Athletic Trainers
  Society in 1990 and was inducted to their Hall of
  Fame in 1996. He was inducted into the NATA Hall
  of Fame in 2002. In March of 2006, he was named
  co-recipient of The Contribution to Football
  Award by the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the
  National and College Football Foundation. He
  continues to work part-time with Tennessee
  Orthopedic Alliance.

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Albert "Al" Green

• 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. Greens 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.

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Sue Stanley-Green

• Sue StanleyGreen received her BS from The Ohio
  State University and her MS from Purdue
  University. She served as Director of
  Intramural Recreational Services at East
  Carolina University. While at ECU, she met NATA
  Executive Secretary Mary Edgerly when the
  national office was in Greenville, NC. It was
  through this introduction to the NATA that Sue
  started her extensive service to the NATA and
  the athletic training profession. Her athletic
  training career included being the Associate
  Head Athletic Trainer at the University of
  Kentucky and the first women to work SEC
  Football, Athletic Trainer-Physician Extender
  for Kentucky Sports Medicine Clinic, Head
  Athletic Trainer at Centre College and at the
  time of her induction into the Hall of Fame,
  Program Director of the Athletic Training
  Education Program at Florida Southern College.
  Sues service to the profession includes serving
  as a member of the NATA Board of Directors, a two
  time Director on the Board of Certification,
  President of District IX, Vice President of the
  Kentucky Athletic Trainers Society, and
  Co-Medical Director of the Bluegrass State Games.
  She traveled internationally with USA Basketball
  Teams. Ms. Stanley Greens awards include the
  NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award,
  SEATA Award of Merit, SEATA Backbone Award and
  was the recipient of the 2004 American Academy of
  Podiatric Sports Medicine Excellence in Athletic
  Training. She is married to fellow NATA Hall of
  Fame recipient Al Green. They are the first
  married couple inducted into the Hall of Fame.

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William H. Bill McDonald

• Born in Carbon Hill, Alabama, Bill attended the
  University of Alabama and served as a student
  athletic trainer and manager for the Crimson
  Tide. At Alabama, he completed his BS in 1967
  and his MS in 1968. He was a high school
  athletic trainer/coach in the Dekalb and Cobb
  County School Systems in Georgia from 1968 to
  1972. He began a 15 year tenure at Georgia Tech
  in 1972 serving as the Director of Sports
  Medicine and Assistant Athletic Director. In
  1987 he returned home to the University of
  Alabama where he continues today as the Director
  of Sports Medicine, Football Travel Coordinator,
  and On Campus Clinical Coordinator for the
  athletic training education program. Bill was an
  athletic trainer for the 1996 Olympics in
  Atlanta, Georgia. He received the Athletic
  Trainer Service Award in 1996 and the Most
  Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 2000 from
  the NATA. He has been a member of NATA since
  1967 and was inducted into the Alabama Athletic
  Trainers Association in 2005. Bill continues to
  serve the profession in many capacities including
  service on the NATA College and University
  Athletic Trainers Committee, the NATA Strategic
  Implementation Team and on the Alabama Board of
  Athletic Trainers.