Tim Garl is in his 26th year as Indiana's basketball trainer. Garl is a regular speaker at both national and international sports medicine programs, including numerous presentations in Asia, South America, Europe and most recently at the European Basketball Championships in Spain. In 2001, he served at the World University Games in Beijing, and in 2002, he assisted with the FIBA World Basketball Championships in Indianapolis. In the summer of 2004, he worked at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Additionaly, he went to Turkey in the summer of 2005 to work at the World University Games. He is an annual speaker at the NCAA First Team Program - a mentoring committee for high school basketball players. He has also published several articles about sports medicine issues and basketball injuries. He, along with team physician Larry Rink, M.D., and Bloomington physician Tom Hrisomalos, M.D., authored the U.S. Olympic Committee's position paper on Blood Born Pathogens and Sports Participation. This was the first widely accepted position paper dealing with the subject. A native of Elkhart, Ind., he served as a student athletic trainer (1975-78) for legendary football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant while completing an undergraduate degree at Alabama. In 1978, Garl was hired at Mississippi, where he served as assistant athletic trainer for all of the Rebels' men's sports. He also completed a master's degree in administration at Ole Miss and completed an MPA degree in health systems management at Indiana in 1989. Garl has worked with numerous United States basketball teams in international competition, including the 1984 gold medal men's Olympic team and the 1986 FIBA World Championship team. Certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association and the state of Indiana, Garl has served on the United States Olympic Committees and Sports Medicine Committee. He has served since the 1988 Olympics, and was recently reappointed for another four years. He is the longest serving member on this committee. During the summer of 1996, Garl was appointed chairman of the USOC's Olympic Sports Medicine Society, the alumni group of the USOC Medical Division, becoming the first non-physician to lead that organization. He also serves as a consultant to the U.S. Antidoping Agency. Garl was also recently selected to the board of directors for the College Athletic Trainers Society. Garl and his wife, Jennifer, have three daughters (Emily, Meg and Haley). |
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