Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine/Athletic Training
M Basketball, Cheer, Dance
- Email:
- tclark@calbaptist.edu
- Phone:
- 552-8512
Tim Clark started his position of Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Medicine at California Baptist University in June 2014. He oversees all of CBU athletic training, while handling the men's basketball and cheer programs.
Clark boasts over 25 years of athletic training experience, spending time in the collegiate and professional levels. He came to CBU directly from Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C. where he served as an assistant professor and assistant athletic trainer. Before Methodist University, Clark spent 15 years as an athletic trainer in the National Hockey League.
Clark got his start in the NHL in September 1998 as an assistant athletic trainer for the Washington Capitals. After seven years in Washington, Clark came to California to become the head athletic trainer for the Anaheim Ducks in August 2005.
With the Capitals, Clark assisted in providing medical coverage for all of their games and practices, completed daily injury reports and was responsible for ordering medical supplies and maintaining pharmacy records and inventory.
In addition to his previous duties in Washington, Clark worked closely with the Ducks general manager, team physicians and support staff in running the athletic training program in Anaheim. He held the position for eight years and was part of the club winning the Stanley Cup in 2007. He worked his 1,000th NHL contest on November 11, 2011 during the 2011-12 season.
While with the Ducks, Clark also served as the head athletic trainer for the United States Hockey Team in the 2010 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships in Cologne, Germany. He was also an approved clinical instructor for Chapman University and supervised student athletic trainers/interns from Chapman, Cal State Fullerton and Concordia University.
Clark has a strong background in professional hockey, but he got his start at Loyola University in Baltimore, Md., as the seasonal head athletic trainer of the men’s basketball program in October of 1995. After a season at Loyola, Clark became an athletic trainer at Nova Care Physical Therapy in Glen Burnie, Md. in April of 1996 and was there until September 1998.
In 1993, Clark earned his Bachelor of Science in allied health – athletic training from Slippery Rock University and went on to receive his masters of education in science from Salisbury State University. While getting his masters, Clark served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Salisbury State.
