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ATEP Home -> Faculty & Staff -> Brian Farr
Brian
Farr, MA, ATC, LAT, CSCS
Director, Athletic Training Education Program
Senior Lecturer, Department of Kinesiology & Health Education
Brian has been the Director of the Athletic Training Education Program since 2002. He received a Teaching Excellence Award in 2011-12 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013. He is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Longhorns Sports Medicine Camp and Director and Founder of the Longhorns Lecture Series for Continuing Education, a professional CEU program for area healthcare professionals. He has delivered over two dozen professional presentations on a variety of sports medicine topics and was lead author on a chapter in Clinical Orthopedic Rehabilitation - An Evidence-Based Approach, 3rd ed.
Prior to his faculty position, Brian spent three seasons as the athletic trainer for the Longhorn Men’s Basketball team. In addition to tending to the basketball team, he coordinated the athletic training student internship program, coordinated the educational inservice program, and taught for the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education (KHED).
Brian came to UT by way of Oklahoma State University where he served as Assistant Coordinator of Sports Medicine working with the Cowboy’s men’s basketball and football teams. He also served as an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in OSU’s College of Education, where he taught athletic training courses. Brian also coordinated OSU’s staff inservice educational series and assisted in the clinical education of OSU’s athletic training students.
Brian also spent one year as the head athletic trainer for the Columbus Chill, a minor league, professional ice hockey team; one season as the assistant athletic trainer with the World League of American Football’s (NFL Europe) Scottish Claymores; and served as an athletic trainer at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY. Brian was named to the USOC Sports Medicine Staff for the 2011 Para Pan-Am Games in Mexico. He also served as the athletic trainer with USA Sitting Volleyball at the 2012 WOVD International Cup in Cairo, Egypt.
Brian earned his bachelor of science degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science from Michigan State University in 1993. He completed a two-year graduate assistantship and his master of arts degree in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation from The Ohio State University in 1996.
Brian is a nationally certified athletic trainer (ATC), a state licensed athletic trainer (LAT), and a nationally certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS). His professional involvement includes:
Brian and his wife, Kady, have three children: Cat (a 2011 UT graduate), Caleb and Kendal.
