Ron Carroll re-appointed to Arkansas State Board of Athletic Training

Arkansas State Assistant Athletics Director for Sports activities Drugs Ron Carroll has been re-appointed to the Arkansas State Board of Athletic Coaching by Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.

Carroll, who grew to become A-State’s first licensed athletic coach in April of 1976, has acquired the governor-appointed place on the board since November of 1995 and is without doubt one of the authentic appointees to the board. He has additionally served because the board’s elected chairman since December of the identical yr. When his time period expires in 2025, Carroll may have been a member of the board for 30 consecutive years.

Former Arkansas Governor Jim Man Tucker initially appointed Carroll to the board in 1995. Serving three-year phrases, he was re-appointed in 1998, 2001, and 2004 by former Governor Mike Huckabee, in addition to in 2007, 2010, and 2013 by Governor Mike Beebe. Hutchinson then re-appointed Carroll in 2016, 2019 and in 2022.

The Arkansas State Board of Athletic Coaching is a regulatory group created to concern licenses for the follow of athletic coaching and to uphold the requirements prescribed by statute to guard the well being of the general public. It’s composed of 5 members, every appointed by the Governor each three years. 4 of the 5 members appointed are Arkansas licensed athletic trainers who’re totally in a position to have interaction in coaching throughout the state of Arkansas. The fifth member serves as a full voting shopper member. This member just isn’t actively engaged in or is retired from the follow of athletic coaching, medication, bodily remedy, or employment by an athletic division of an accredited schooling establishment.

Carroll was elevated to the Pink Wolves’ senior management group in April of 2021 and his present position as Assistant AD for Sports activities Drugs. Together with his elevation final yr, he now performs a bigger position within the athletic division’s administrative processes, particularly in sports activities medication issues throughout all 16 of the college’s NCAA intercollegiate sports activities.

A member of each the Nationwide Athletic Trainers Affiliate (NATA) Corridor of Fame and the Arkansas State Athletics Corridor of Honor, he continues to get pleasure from a highly-decorated profession that features quite a few laurels from organizations resembling NATA, the Arkansas Athletic Trainers’ Affiliate (AATA) and Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Affiliate (SWATA).

Carroll was additionally a part of the all-time 100 Excellent Employees acknowledged on the annual Arkansas State College “Distinguished Efficiency Awards and Service Recognition Ceremony” in 2010 for his vital contributions to the College in its 100-year historical past. Moreover, he was an honorary member of the Arkansas State All-Centennial Soccer Group that was introduced in 2014. Carroll has labored each A-State soccer recreation of his profession, a complete of 544 contests out of the Pink Wolves’ 1,031 all-time video games.

Further details about the Arkansas State Board of Athletic Coaching might be discovered on-line at www.aratb.org.

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