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Tad Leusch, MS, ATC, LAT
Clinical Education Coordinator, ATEP

Specialist, Kinesiology and Health Education

Approved Clinical Instructor

Tad joined the UT staff in 2011 as the ATEP Clinical Coordinator and an Assistant Athletic Trainer with women's rowing. In 2012 he moved to a full-time faculty position as the ATEP's Clinical Education Coordinator and Specialist in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education.

Tad joined the Longhorns staff after serving six years as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Iowa, where he also served as a course instructor and Approved Clinical Instructor in the ATEP. Prior to his position at Iowa, he spent three years as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Illinois, where he worked with the Illini football program. Tad also served as an Approved Clinical Instructor in the ATEP and served as the head men's and women's gymnastics athletic trainer. Leusch also spent two years as a staff athletic trainer at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN, where he worked with the men's and women's soccer and basketball teams and the baseball squad.

Tad earned his bachelor's degree in sport studies from Northwestern College in St. Paul, MN in 1998, where he worked with various athletic teams as an athletic training student. He earned his master's degree in kinesiology from Michigan State in 2000. As a graduate assistant at MSU he worked with football, baseball and women's gymnastics squads while also coordinating the athletic training coverage of Michigan State's sports camps for two summers.

Tad also worked with the athletic training staff of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers during Tampa Bay's 1999 training camp. He is Certified Athletic Trainer by the NATA Board of Certification and also certified in First Aid and CPR and a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association.

Leusch is a native of Waukegan, IL. He and his wife, Kelly, have two children.