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 R.T. Floyd is in his
thirty-sixth year
in providing athletic training services for The
University of
West Alabama.
He currently serves as Director
of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine for the
UWA Athletic Training & Sports
Medicine Center,
Program Director for the CAATE accredited athletic training education program,
and as Chair and Professor in the Department of
Physical Education and Athletic Training.
His additional
responsibilities include football travel arrangements.
A licensed athletic trainer and
emergency medical technician, Dr. Floyd is a certified member of numerous
professional organizations including the National
Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA),
the National Strength and Conditioning
Association,
and the Athletic Equipment Managers’ Association.
He also retains active membership in the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports
Medicine, and the American Osteopathic
Academy of Sports Medicine
He represents the
Southeast Athletic Trainers Association
(SEATA) and District IX of the NATA as District Director to the NATA Board of
Directors. He also serves as Vice-President for District Relations on the
National
Athletic Trainers' Association Research and Education Foundation
Board of Directors.
Floyd served as the Head
Athletic Trainer for the Blue-Gray All-Star Classic
in his native Montgomery from 1977 through 2001, after spending two years on the annual
event’s athletic training staff. He is a 1974 graduate of Lowndes Academy,
where he worked as an all-sports athletic trainer for four years, before earning
a B.S. and M.A.T. in Physical Education from UWA
in 1980 and 1982, as well as an Ed.D. in Human Performance Studies from the
University of
Alabama in
1995.
Floyd was named to the
UWA
Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001 and tabbed an "Outstanding Young Men of
America" in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1986. He was presented the
Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer
Award by the NATA in 2003 and received the
organization’s Athletic Trainer Service
Award in 1996. He received the
District IX Award for Outstanding Contribution to the field of Athletic
Training by SEATA in 1990 and the
Award
of Merit in 2001 before being inducted into the
SEATA Hall of Fame
in 2008.
In 2004, he was inducted into the
Alabama Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame.
In 2007, he received the
NATA
Sayers "Bud"
Miller
Distinguished Educator Award. He was named to Who’s Who Among
America’s Teachers in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2005. In 1996 he was presented the
UWA Achievement
Award by the University of West Alabama National Alumni Association. In
1997, the UWA Faculty and Board of Trustees recognized Floyd for outstanding
achievement in scholarship, teaching, and leadership by presenting him with a
Loraine McIlwain Bell
Trustee Professorship. Previously, Floyd served as President of the
UWA Faculty Senate and completed two terms as President of the
Alabama Council of University Faculty
Presidents. He
is also author of the textbook, “Manual of Structural
Kinesiology”, now in
its 17th edition.
Floyd is married to the former
Lisa Neville of Butler. They have four children, Robert Thomas, 25, Jeanna,
24,
Rebecca, 22, and Kate, 11.
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