Our 10th Episode!
How does an architecture major and a week in the student health center lead to an outstanding athletic training career featuring innovation and product development that contributes to the health and well being of athletes?  Ron O'Neil explains in this episode of Off the Roll.  Ron was a graduate of Ball State University in 1969.  While at Ball State he played varsity baseball while also being a student athletic trainer.  He was one of the few that was taught by Bud Miller, Dick Hoover, Ron Sendre and Jim Dickerson.  Quite an impressive list of mentors.  He next moved on to Northwestern University and for he next 4 years worked with NATA hall of famer Dick Hoover as an assistant athletic trainer.  Because of his work with the first isokinetic machines he got the opportunity to become an assistant athletic trainer with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles where he spent 11 years working with hall of fame athletic training legend Otho Davis.  In his time with the Eagles he help develop one the most prestigious athletic training intern programs in the country.  In 1984 the New England Patriots came calling and he spent the next 18 years there.  He was a part of 3 Super Bowl's and one Super Bowl title in 2002.  In 1997 Ron and his staff were awarded the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the year.  Next he moved on the Andover Healthcare where he was the senior consultant in education, research and development and was instrumental in development of Andover PowerFlex, PowerTape PowerFlex AFD.  He also did educations session on taping techniques in the United States and Europe.  He retired from Andover in 2020.  He resides in the the Boston area with his wife Joyce.

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