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Brian Curless
Head Athletic Trainer
Brian Curless has been head athletic trainer at Central Missouri since 2000. While at UCM, he has been prominent in developing concussion management and heat illness protocol and instrumental in ankle brace and computer injury management system development.
He came to the University after being with SportONE Sports Medicine in Fort Wayne, Ind. While with SportONE, he assisted sports-medicine physicians with patient care, provided athletic-training services for Fort Wayne’s semi-pro football team, as well as event coverage for Tri-State University football and basketball and for high schools in the area.
Curless, who was named Indiana Clinical/Professional Athletic Trainer of the Year in July of 1999, also has worked the Mid-Continent Conference basketball tournament and the NCAA Division I Men’s Volleyball Finals in 1994.
Prior to working for SportONE, Curless was an athletic trainer for the ‘Physical Performance Center’ in Fort Wayne and Terre Haute from 1991-1995. He was also an athletic trainer for 21st Century Rehabilitation in Richmond, Ind., for one year and head athletic trainer for Earlham College in Richmond for five.
A native of Lafayette, Ind., Curless is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainer’s Association. In addition, he is a licenced athletic trainer by the Missouri Board of Healing Arts. He received his bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1984 from Indiana State University, where he served as a student athletic trainer for four years, and earned his master’s degree in physical education from Ball State University in 1989. His wife’s name is Krista.
