Camp Director, Camp Founder

Barry Clements, ATC/L, CSCS
Associate Director of Athletics  
clements@admin.usf.edu

An employee in the USF Department of Athletics since 1983, Barry Clements was promoted to his current position as associate director of athletics for Sports and Program Services in 2002.  Clements provides oversight to eleven of USF's eighteen sports: women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, women's soccer, women's indoor track, men's and women's outdoor track, and men's and women's tennis. Additionally, Clements administratively oversees the Equipment Area, the Sports Medicine Department, the Strength and Conditioning Department and the Video Area.

Clements has overseen the sports medicine area since 1983 when he first came to USF. In January 1993, he was promoted to assistant director of athletics. Over the course of his tenure, Clements has built a comprehensive Sports Medicine Department and Program that is one of the best in the country. He has former students placed throughout the country as well as here at USF. He has developed a network of the Tampa Bay area's top physicians, covering every facet of healthcare to serve USF's student-athletes.  Clements has and continues to stay involved in providing sport medicine services to the community. Clements is also responsible for building the Strength and Conditioning Department. As in sports medicine, Clements served as the head person in that area and remains certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

A certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association, Clements is also a past president of the Athletic Trainers Association of Florida. During his presidency, that organization became incorporated and tax-exempt while achieving registration and licensure.  Clements is also a Doping Control Officer for the United States Anti Doping Agency, formerly the United States Olympic Committee of which he also served as an athletic trainer for men's and women's volleyball during the Olympic Festival in 1993 at San Antonio. He was invited to be the men's volleyball athletic trainer for the World University Games in 1995.

Clements won the 1993 Florida Athletic Trainer of the Year Award, and he also was the 1992 winner in the college and professional sports division. In addition, He has been a lecturer on sports medicine, including tours of Sweden, Finland and Russia. In 1994, he became the first American trainer to work in the European Championships.

In 2003, Clements was inducted into the Athletic Trainers Association of Florida Hall of Fame.

Clements, 46, graduated from Ball State, where he was named an Outstanding Young Alumnus in 1994, and he also has a master's degree from Kent State.  Prior to coming to USF he was the head athletic trainer at Stebbins High School in Dayton Ohio. He was also the director of Dick Baumgartner's Basketball Shooting Camps during the early to mid eighties. At the time the camps were the largest in the country. Other previous experience includes athletic trainer positions with the Cleveland Browns, the Orlando All-Star Classic, Baseball Fantasies Camp and the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, just to mention a few. 

Clements is a native of Richmond, Ind. He and his wife, Melissa, reside in Temple Terrace with their daughter, Nicole (9).

Camp Curriculum Coordinator

Steve Walz, MA, ATC/L
Assistant Athletic Director, Director of Sports Medicine, Head Football AthleticTrainer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         walz@admin.usf.edu

Steve Walz has been with USF Sports Medicine in several different capacities since 1992.  He returned to USF most recently in 2000 after working as the Sports Medicine Director at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.  Walz was the first-ever football athletic trainer for USF from 1996-98.

Walz oversees all aspects of the sports medicine program while serving as the primary athletic trainer for USF football.

A 1992 graduate from the University of Missouri, Walz also holds a Master’s degree from USF, which he obatined in 1994 when he was the men’s basketball athletic trainer for two seasons.  Following the 1993-94 basketball season, he accepted a position with the Florida Orthopaedic Institute, where the USF student-athletes received care and underwent injury rehabilitation.  During his stint at FOI, Walz also served as Head Athletic Trainer for the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League during their 1996 World Championship season. 

Walz was elected to the Athletic Trainers Association of Florida Executive Board in January 2003 as the West Coast Representative.

Walz and his wife, Shelley, have a four-year-old son, Henry.

Camp Instructors

 Lisa Osterbrock, MA, ATC/L
 

 

Osterbrock came to USF from Western Michigan, where she received her Masters of Arts in Physical Education with an emphasis in athletic training.  While at WMU she provided athletic training serviced to local Portage Northern High School.

In 1998, Osterbrock received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from nearby Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla.  After graduating she did a two-year internship with Eckerd College athletics and an internship with the MLS Tampa Bay Mutiny in the spring of 2000. 

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, she assisted as an athletic trainer to the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League in 2003, when they won the 2003 World Championship, and part of the 2004 season.

 Robb Duncanson, M.Ed., ATC/L
         

 

Duncanson came to USF straight from the ranks of professional football, having served as the Co-Head Athletic Trainer for the Louisville Fire of the Arena2 Football League during the 2002 season.  He was also a seasonal assistant with the New York Jets in 2001, and a summer intern with the New York Giants in 1997. He serves as the editor for the Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida newsletter, the ATAF Forum. Duncanson received the ATAF President’s Backbone Award for his service and guidance in updating the ATAF.org website. Duncanson has spoken at several conferences nationwide on various topics.

Duncanson received a Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Science in 1999 from Elmira College, and a Master’s Degree in Sports Administration from the University of Louisville in 2001. While at Louisville, Duncanson served as a Graduate Assistant for the Cardinal Football Team, Head Athletic Trainer at Spalding University and as an Athletic Trainer at duPont Manual High School and with the Kentucky Orthopedic Rehab Team.  

 

Donna Jordan, MA, MS, ATC, LAT - Assistant Athletic Trainer, Head Women's Basketball Athletic Trainer

Jennifer Ross,MA, ATC, LAT- Assistant Athletic Trainer, Men's Basketball

Dr. Micki Cuppett, Ed.D., ATC/L - USF College of Medicine

Dr. Pradeep Vaguri, Ph.D., ATC/L- USF Assistant Professor, Athletic Training Program Coordinator

Past Guest Speakers include:

Pat Jernigan, MS, ATC/L - Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

 

 

 

 

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