David Kerns was hired as Head Athletic Trainer for Wyoming Football in the spring of 2019. The 2023 season will mark his fifth year at Wyoming and his 39th working as an athletic trainer at the collegiate level. Kerns will oversee all athletic training operations for Cowboy Football, including supervising a staff of full-time athletic trainers and a group of student interns who will work directly with the football team.
He has been a Board of Certification (BOC) certified athletic trainer since 1985.
Kerns will work with student-athletes to help prevent, identify, manage and rehabilitate injuries, while also collaborating with Wyoming Football team physicians to provide the best medical care for UW student-athletes.
For 25 years from 1994-2018, Kerns served as head football athletic trainer at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va. In addition to serving as the head football athletic trainer at West Virginia, Kerns also was a classroom and clinical instructor for the Athletic Training Approved Curriculum Program in the WVU College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
Before joining the West Virginia Athletics Department, Kerns was an Assistant Athletic Trainer and Instructor at Ohio University for seven years from 1987-’94. While his title was Assistant Athletic Trainer, he served as the Head Athletic Trainer for the Bobcat Football team.
He began at Ohio U. as a graduate assistant athletic trainer from 1985 to 1987, working with the men’s basketball team.
Kerns earned his bachelor’s degree in health and physical education with an emphasis in athletic training from Penn State in January 1984. He also received his teaching certificate upon his graduation. He worked as the head athletic trainer at Redland High School in Lewisberry, Pa., for the 1984-85 academic year before entering graduate school at Ohio U. in 1985. Kerns completed his master’s degree in physical education with a specialization in athletic training from Ohio in 1987.
Throughout his career, he has made numerous presentations at the state and district levels and has served on several National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) committees.
Kerns is originally from Harrisburg, Pa. His wife is Kelly Kerns.
