Melin received both his bachelor’s (1944) and master’s (1948) degrees from the University of Minnesota. He joined the faculty and athletic staff of Washington University in 1949 and served for 28 years before retiring in 1977. He continued working as an athletic trainer for some time after his retirement. In 1986, Melin received the Washington… Read more »
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Dr. Paul Meyer
Dr. Paul Meyer was an orthopedic surgeon and team physician for the Kansas City Athletics and the Kansas City Royals. He also was a clinical Associate Professor of Orthopedics at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. He authored, or co-authored, several publications about various subjects in orthopedics, including one entitled “Baseball Shoulders.” Meyer was… Read more »
Dr. Harvey Michael
Dr. Harvey Michael was the team physician for Missouri State University for 18 years. He graduated from the Oklahoma School of Medicine in Oklahoma City in 1962, then moved to Springfield, Missouri in 1967 to set up his private practice at the Smith-Glynn-Callaway Clinic. He was also a member of the Green County Medical Society.… Read more »
Dr. Isadore Middleman
Isadore Middleman was the team doctor for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1949 until he died in 1968. He received his M.D. from St. Louis University in 1933, then served his internship and residency at Jewish Hospital, also in St. Louis. After several years in private practice, as a surgeon, he became the chief of… Read more »
Ivan Milton
Ivan Milton was the longest-tenured athletic trainer Missouri State University has had many noteworthy accomplishments in his nearly three-decade career on the Springfield campus, as he was influential the establishment and expansion of a number of training facilities and services. In his first year at Missouri State University, he opened and supplied the training room… Read more »
Dr. E. L. Niedermeyer
Dr. E.L. Niedermayer served as a team physician for Tarkio College for over 30 years. In addition to being part of the MSHOF class of 1983, he was also inducted into the Tarkio College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1967, the Tarkio City Council voted to rename North City Park to Niedermeyer Memorial… Read more »
John Omohundro
John Omohundro was a trainer with the Cardinals for 42 years, including the last 37 years as the team’s head athletic trainer. Including preseason, regular season, and postseason, Omohundro worked 838 games throughout his Cardinals’ employment; his final contest was for 42 years; his last game was Super Bowl XLIII in February of 2009. He… Read more »
Dr. E. A. Porter
Dr. Edward Addison “Doc” Porter was a lifelong resident of the Hannibal, Missouri area and a sports enthusiast. While still pursuing his degree at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Porter was a student physician for the athletic teams of Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville. While in that capacity, he became friends… Read more »
Jim Raynor
In the late 1980s, while attending college in Springfield, Jim Raynor enrolled in an introductory course about something called sports medicine. This was years before sports medicine would explode across professional, college and then high school athletics. Turned out, in a few short years, Raynor played a major role in fueling its rise. And because… Read more »
Jack Rockwell
Jack Rockwell has had a career in sports medicine that has covered more than 45 years and is easily recognizied as one of the most respected in his field. Because of his injuries as an Army sergeant in World War II, he was inspired to earn a physical therapy degree from the University of Kansas,… Read more »
Wayne Rudy
Wayne Rudy was a trainer for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1960 to 1983. His service to the Chiefs saw them make three AFL championship teams and two Super Bowl teams, which included their Super Bowl IV win. He reportedly oversaw 4,000 practices and 474 games. Rudy was known for always being there for the… Read more »
Dr. Richard Seagrave
Dr. Rick Seagrave earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan before heading south to work on his doctorate at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. It was at UTMB that Dr. Seagrave did his residency in Orthopedics. Always interested in sports, Rick moved to Los Angeles, where he completed a fellowship… Read more »
Rex Sharp
Those who work behind the scenes in sports know all too well that you can make a huge difference. Just ask Rex Sharp. Back in the spring of 1997, less than a year after being hired as the head athletic trainer for the University of Missouri, he had a request for the team doctor –… Read more »
Dr. Pat Smith
Back in 2011, after a Mizzou standout running back tore two knee ligaments, a meniscus and patellar tendon on the same play, Tiger fans had a rare glimpse into the world of the head team physician. In essence, Dr. Pat Smith showed his human side. Sure, it had always been there when he celebrated victories… Read more »
Dr. Ronald VanDam
Ronald Leonard VanDam was born January 22, 1937, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the son of Rev. Leonard and Marian Perkins VanDam. He married Jonell Willis on May 30, 1964. Dr. VanDam had a distinguished career as Head Athletic Trainer and Professor at the University of Central Missouri for 31 years. Following his arrival on campus in… Read more »