William E. "Pinky" Newell
Purdue Athletic Trainer, 1949-1976

Purdue University Sports Medicine utilizes on-site daily care by the athletic training staff and team physicians, as well as consultants in orthopedics, dentistry, ophthalmology, neurology, and other medical specialists in Lafayette/West Lafayette and Indianapolis. With a staff of nine athletic trainers and more than 20 physicians and other health science professionals, the Purdue student-athlete's health is well cared for.

Purdue attracts some of the finest athletic trainers in the country. The nine athletic trainers on the Purdue staff were drawn here by the reputation of the athletic training program. Every athletic trainer at Purdue is highly qualified; each has a master's degree, a physical therapy degree, or PhD. Most athletic trainers on the Purdue staff also teach courses in the athletic training education program.

Every Purdue sport has its own staff athletic trainer, along with a complement of athletic training students, to care for Boilermaker student-athletes.

The reputation of Purdue's athletic training education program reaches nationwide. Graduates of the program are head and assistant athletic trainers in the NFL, the NBA, the Big Ten, and the Pac-10, as well as other conferences across the country. They serve in high schools and clinics in all parts of the United States.