Don Bishop, Director of Athletic Training Services, enters his sixth year at UNI. He is directly responsible for the healthcare of the men's basketball team and supervision of nine certified athletic trainers on the UNI athletic training staff. Bishop is also a clinical instructor within the UNI Athletic Training Education Program. Prior to his arrival at UNI he was the director of athletic training education and head athletic trainer for seven years at Upper Iowa University . Bishop received his bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Upper Iowa in 1992 and his master's in health, physical education and leisure services from UNI in 1998. In his position at Upper Iowa, he coordinated athletic training coverage for 17 Division III sports teams. Prior to joining Upper Iowa's staff, he was a clinical outreach athletic trainer at Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital in Decorah, Iowa, from 1992-94, and was an adjunct instructor at Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar, Iowa, in the spring of 1994. Bishop has served on the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) college and university student athletic trainers committee since the spring of 1999, and has been an examiner for NATA Board of Certification Exam.