UT Athletic Training Educational Program

Tina Bonci, MS, ATC, LAT
Co-Director, Division of Athletic Training/Sports Medicine

Tina Bonci is the Co-Director of the Division of Athletic Training/Sports Medicine for Intercollegiate Athletics. In addition to her role as Co-Director, she continues to serve as Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Medicine in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.

Under her direction, UT has developed an interdisciplinary model for health care that focuses on clinical, research and educational initiatives that have preventive, health-restoring and performance-enhancing potential. The model demonstrates how medical practitioners, university academicians and researchers, coaches, and administrators can be integrated within the framework of higher education to positively influence the health and well-being of student-athletes. During her tenure at UT, Bonci and her staff have been instrumental in maintaining and promoting the health of student-athletes who have claimed 22 NCAA championship titles in six different sports.

Additionally, she is a veteran of numerous national team competitions. She has been appointed by the United States Olympic Committee/Sports Medicine Council to the medical staffs of the boycotted 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. In 1984, she served as head athletic trainer for the U.S. Women’s Gold Medalist basketball team. A noted speaker and lecturer on women’s health issues, she has been published in numerous sports medicine journals, and currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Sports Rehabilitation.

Bonci formerly held a clinical appointment at the University of Pennsylvania Sports Medicine Center, a division of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.