Chris Lenker

Office: Niswonger 109
Ext.: 5366/5317
P.O. Box: 5061
Email: clenker@tusculum.edu

Chris Lenker is in his fourth year as Head Athletic Trainer at Tusculum College after serving as Assistant Athletic Trainer for four years. Lenker directs the overall operation and medical treatment of the student-athletes of the 14 intercollegiate sports offered by the College.

His duties include overseeing all phases of the Athletic Training program, coordination of all athletic insurance matters, direction of the College's athletic drug testing program, prevention, management and rehabilitation of athletic injuries and the development of athletic training room policies and procedures. This year, he will continue to serve the athletic training needs of the Pioneer football and baseball programs. Since coming to the Greeneville campus, he has served as athletic trainer for men and women's soccer, men and women's basketball and baseball.

Lenker, 33, joined the Tusculum staff after serving as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at East Carolina University for two years. While at ECU, Lenker assisted in the management and rehabilitation of athletic injuries for 500 student-athletes in the 19 sports offered at the NCAA Division I program. His primary responsibilities included men's soccer, baseball and football, which played in the 1999 inaugural Mobile, Alabama Bowl.

Prior to his stint at ECU, Lenker served as head athletic trainer at White Oak High School in Jacksonville, N.C. He was responsible for the medical coverage and rehabilitation for the student-athletes at White Oak, while also serving on the faculty.

The Iowa native is certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association (N.A.T.A.) and is a licensed through the Tennessee Board of Athletic Training Examiners. He is a certified examiner with the National Athletic Trainers' Association Board of Cerification and is an approved clinical instructor with the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. He is an American Red Cross instructor of CPR for Professional Rescuers and CPR/AED/First Aid in the Workplace. Lenker was recently named chair of the South Atlantic Confernece Athletic Trainer Committee through July of 2009.

Lenker earned his Bachelor's degree in Exercise and Sports Science at East Carolina in 1997, and later earned his Master's in Health Education at ECU in 2000.

Lenker is married to the former Laura Sharp of Ocean City, New Jersey. Their son Addison Cade was born in May of 2007.