Updated 6/1/09

Dan Watson, 35, begins his fifth season as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Delaware in 2009-10.

Watson, who works with all Blue Hen teams, earned his degree in athletic training with honors from the University of Delaware in 1995 after serving for three years as a student trainer and working with the Blue Hen football, men’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, and baseball programs.

Starting in the Fall of 2008, he began assisting Head Athletic Trainer John Smith with day-to-day responsibilities with the Blue Hen football program, including staffing all practices and games.

Watson moved on to the University of Virginia where he earned his master’s degree in education, athletic training, and sports medicine in 1996.

Watson began his career at Hampden-Sydney (Va.) College as a graduate assistant in 1995-96 before moving on to Yale University in New Haven, Conn. where he served as assistant athletic trainer, working with the football, ice hockey, and track and field programs from 1996-99.

While at Yale, he was active as medical coordinator with the National Youth Sports Program while providing free physicals to underprivileged children and also assisted at the Yale Physical Therapy Clinic where he designed and administered rehabilitation programs for the faculty, staff, and students.

Watson moved on to Rutgers University in 1999 and served with the Scarlet Knights athletics program for five years before returning to Delaware. While at Rutgers, he worked with the men’s soccer, wrestling, baseball, and track and field programs and also had teaching duties within the athletic training field.

While at Delaware, he earned the C. Roy Rylander Award as the Outstanding Senior Student Athletic Trainer in 1995, received the Robert A. Layton Achievement Award for academics and citizenship, and was a two-time Student Athletic Trainer of the Month. He is also a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association.

Watson and his wife, Minda, reside in Newark.