DONALD D. LOWE - 2007
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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THOMAS F. LUTZ - 2007
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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FRANK MANN - 2007
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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CHARLES F. MARTIN - 2007
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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JAMES DOUGLAS "DOUG" MAY - 2007
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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WILLIAM H. "BILL" McDONALD - 2007
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.  His induction into the NATA Hall of Fame came in 2004.  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.
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J. LINDSY McLEAN - 2007
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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WARREN G. MORRIS - 2007
Warren Morris learned athletic training from two of the profession’s 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 Vice–Director from 1967 to 1971 then as District Director from 1971 to 1973.  Morris has also been the NATA’s 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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MICKEY O'BRIEN - 2007
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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CHRIS PATRICK, JR. - 2007
Chris Patrick began his athletic training career while pursuing his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee.  After receiving his master’s 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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EARL J. "BUBBA" PORCHE - 2007
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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JOHN "JACK" REDGREN - 2007
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 theNATA 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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JERRY RHEA - 2007
Jerry Rhea entered the athletic training profession in 1956 while a student at Texas A&M 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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L. DAVID "SANDY" SANDLIN - 2007
Sandy, a native of Huntsville, Alabama, moved to Chattanooga at 14 and never left the valley he loved.  Lee Jensen, the Chattanooga Lookout’s 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 1930’s 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 Fameundefinedat 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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CLAUDE "BIG MONK" SIMONS, SR. - 2007
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 1930’s and the 1940’s.  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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SUE STANLEY-GREEN - 2007
Sue Stanley–Green 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.  Sue’s 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 – Green’s 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 NATA Hall of Fame (2004).
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FRANK WANDLE - 2007
Col. Frank Wandle was athletic trainer at Army, Yale and served two years at Louisiana State University around 1933 before retiring. Dates are not available but he was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1962.
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JOE WORDEN - 2007
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 Vanderbilt’s head athletic trainer in 1949 and handled all sports until 1971 when he was assigned to specialize in football and men’s basketball.  He continued to assist club sports, and in 1977 began working with the newly created women’s 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 undefined 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.