Edinboro University Athletics

Gary Hanna is being inducted as the Distinguished Service Award recipient. Hanna joined the Edinboro University Athletic Training staff as Associate Athletic Trainer in 1990. In 2003, he was promoted to Head Athletic Trainer and still serves in that position. He came to Edinboro after previously working in the Department of Physical Therapy at St. Joseph's Riverside Hospital in Warren, Ohio. He has been a certified athletic trainer since 1978. Hanna served as the Head Athletic Trainer at John Carroll University from 1981-87 and also worked with the Youngstown Pride professional basketball team in the World Basketball League during the 1988 season. In 1983, he began his United States Olympic athletic training experience. He has since worked at the USOC Training Center, the U.S. Olympic Festivals, and with USA Baseball and the National Sports Festival. His Olympic career highlight was to serve on the medical staff at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Soul Korea, with his main responsibility the men's soccer team. While overseeing the health and well-being of Edinboro student-athletes, Hanna has emerged as one of the leaders of the field in collegiate athletics. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania athletic Training hall of fame in 2014, and that same year was a recipient of the NATA Athletic Training Service Award. Hanna received the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society Distinguished Merit Award in 2011. Hanna has served in a variety of capacities on boards and committees. He currently is on the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society Governmental Affairs Committee and College/University Committee; is on the NATA Intercollegiate Council for Sports Medicine; and the PSAC Advisory Council.