Gulf South athletic departments list 55 athletic-training and sports-medicine staff positions across 11 of the 11 covered schools as of 4 Nov 2026 — 8% of the conference's 669 tracked positions, an average of 5.0 per department that has the function. University of West Alabama has the most (18). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 0 hires, 0 departures and 1 title change in these roles.
Data as of 4 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 11 covered Gulf South schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.
One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in athletic training & sports medicine; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded.
| School | Division | Athletic training & sports medicine positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of West Alabama | Division II | 18 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Montevallo | Division II | 7 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lee University | Division II | 6 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Alabama-Huntsville | Division II | 5 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Valdosta State University | Division II | 5 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Trevecca Nazarene University | Division II | 4 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mississippi Christian University | Division II | 3 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Union University (Tenn.) | Division II | 3 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Delta State University | Division II | 2 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Auburn-Montgomery | Division II | 1 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Christian Brothers University | Division II | 1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Athletic training & sports medicine is the buying group for electronic medical records, injury-tracking and concussion tools, treatment and recovery equipment, insurance and telehealth providers. Typical titles in this group: Head Athletic Trainer; Director of Sports Medicine; Assistant Athletic Trainer, Football. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands.
Positions are counted from each person's published job title, classified into Whistle's role vocabulary (shared/staff-roles.ts); this group is the "athletic_trainer" role.
Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered Gulf South schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
55 current positions across 11 covered Gulf South athletic departments as of 4 Nov 2026; University of West Alabama lists the most (18).
University of West Alabama, with 18 athletic-training and sports-medicine staff positions out of 92 tracked positions.
1 change in the last 90 days: 0 hires, 0 departures, 1 title change, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.
From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.