Pearson Named to Wisconsin Sports Medicine Staff
May 18, 2005 | General News
University of Oklahoma assistant athletic trainer Clark Pearson will join the Wisconsin sports medicine staff as an assistant athletic trainer, effective June 1. Pearson 's primary responsibilities with the Badgers will be as head football athletic trainer.
'Clark Pearson is an accomplished athletic trainer from a university with demonstrated success in football on the national scene,' commented Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine Dennis Helwig. 'He is well versed on the care demands of Division I football athletes and our student-athletes will benefit from his expertise.'
Most recently, Pearson served eight years at Big 12 football powerhouse Oklahoma as an assistant athletic trainer for football, baseball, wrestling and women's soccer. While there, he taught several classes on sports medicine at the university as well as guest lecturing at area public schools and at the University of Oklahoma Sports Medicine Symposium.
In addition, he supervised the graduate assistants and student trainers and was a consultant for an online interactive sports injury Web site. He also assisted in the facility design of two new training rooms at Oklahoma.
In 2001, Pearson and the staff at OU were honored as the Big 12 Conference Athletic Training Staff of the Year. In 1999 the staff was featured in the M.D. News-Central Oklahoma in a cover story titled, 'OU Sports Medicine'A Winning Team'.
Pearson earned his master's degree in human relations at Oklahoma while serving as a graduate assistant athletic trainer with football, baseball, track, tennis and volleyball. He also organized the Student Trainer Educational Program (STEP).
Prior to serving the Sooners, Pearson received his undergraduate degree in sports management from the University of Kentucky while working as a student trainer with baseball, basketball, football and gymnastics.
While at Kentucky, Pearson co-founded and coordinated a camp for student trainers at the university. Additionally, he served as the three-year coordinator of medical materials and supplies at the Bluegrass State Games'an event attended by more than 20,000 participants.
