Augustana University Athletics

Brian Gerry serves Augustana as the head athletic trainer for the athletic department and as the head athletic trainer for the football team. He also works as the Clinical Instructor Educator (CIE) and an assistant professor within Augustana’s CAATE accredited Athletic Training Education Program.
 
Gerry began his association with Augustana Athletic Training in 1993, and taught as an adjunct instructor within the HPER department from 1993-96 while working a dual role as the Coordinator of the SPORTS 1 program for Sioux Valley Hospital, where he started the hospital’s sports medicine outreach program.
 
In 1996, Gerry began his role as program director of the athletic training education program (ATEP), where he developed the curriculum, and eventually got the athletic training major CAAHEP accredited. Also in 1996, he began in his current positions within the Augustana athletic department, while at the same time continuing his as the coordinator of the SPORTS 1 program with Sioux Valley until 2001.

Gerry became an exclusive full-time employee of Augustana in 2001, and held the titles of program director/clinical instructor educator/assistant professor and head athletic trainer until 2015. He stepped down from his program director duties in 2015 to make way for a new program director so he could lead the transition of the athletic training education program from an undergraduate program to a master’s entry-level program.
 
From 1987 to 1993, Gerry served as the head athletic trainer for Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to that he studied as an athletic training graduate student at Indiana State University, where he gained valuable sports medicine experience as an athletic trainer for the Indianapolis Colts and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology from 1985-87. He earned his master’s degree in athletic training from Indiana State in 1987.
 
The Sioux Falls Center for Family Practice Residency Program Gerry awarded the Clinical Teacher of the Year award to Gerry in 1997, marking the first, and still the only time, that the award went to a non-physician.
 
A Sioux Falls native, Gerry graduated from Washington High School in 1980, and then went to Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, where he played football and baseball for the Mustangs before graduating in 1985 with a degree in physical education and health education.
 
Brian and his wife Kelli have three children, Jennifer, Matthew and Nathan.