Director
of Athletic Training & Sports Medicine
Professor of Physical Education & Athletic Training
Chair, Department of Physical Education & Athletic Training
R.T. Floyd is in his
thirty-sixth year of providing athletic training services
for the University of West Alabama. Currently, he serves as
the program director for the University of West Alabama's
Athletic Training & Sports Medicine Center and is
also a professor in the
Department of Physical Education and Athletic Training,
which he chairs. His additional responsibilities include
insurance and football travel arrangements.
He served two terms as President
of the
Alabama Council of University Faculty Presidents
which was preceded by a
two-year term as President of the
UWA Faculty Senate.
He served on the
Blue-Gray All-Star Classic
athletic training staff for twenty-seven years, including
twenty-five classics as head athletic trainer of the Gray
Squad. Recently,
he was re-elected by the
Southeast Athletic Trainers Association for a third
term to serve on the
National Athletic Trainers' Association Board
of Directors representing District IX. Additionally,
he also serves as Vice-President for District Relations on the National
Athletic Trainers' Association Research and Education
Foundation Board of Directors. He is a native of
Montgomery and a 1974 graduate of Lowndes Academy, where he
served as athletic trainer for all sports for four years. He
is married to the former Lisa Neville of Butler and they
have four children, Robert Thomas, 25, Jeanna, 24, Rebecca,
22, and Kate, 11.
