Dave England is in his 24th season as the head athletic trainer for the men’s basketball team while also working with baseball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s golf and Razorback spirit squads.
In his 29th full year and his 29th season as a member of the Arkansas athletic training staff, England has been responsible for basketball since the 1983-84 season.
In 2004, he received the District 6 Athletic Trainer Service Award from the National Athletic Trainers Association. He was honored in 2000 as the Arkansas Athletic Trainers’ Association Trainer of the Year.
England also worked at Arkansas as a student and graduate assistant athletic trainer. He returned to Fayetteville following a stint in the St. Louis Cardinals baseball organization.
A 1980 graduate of Arkansas with a bachelor’s of science degree in education, England worked the 1976 Cotton Bowl and 1978 Orange Bowl football games as a student athletic trainer. He was a graduate assistant for Dean Weber in 1980-81 and went with the Hogs to the 1980 Hall of Fame Bowl. He also worked with baseball during those days and went to the 1979 College World Series where the Razorbacks finished second.
He then accepted an offer to work with the Cardinals. After spending some time in the lower levels of the organization, he worked his way up to the position of head trainer for the Cardinals’ Double-A team in Little Rock. He returned to Arkansas in January 1984 as an assistant and was promoted to head athletic trainer in 1989.
In working with Razorback basketball, England has been to 16 NCAA tournaments and two NITs. He’s made three trips to the Final Four and worked with the 1994 NCAA champions and the 1995 national runner-up. He returned to the College World Series with the baseball Hogs in 1985, 1987 and 2004 while the 2002 club advanced to a Super Regional. While working with football he has been to the Liberty and Cotton bowls twice, and the Orange, Holiday and Hall of Fame bowls.
One of the founding members of the Arkansas Athletic Trainers’ Association in 1987, England was inducted into the AATA Hall of Fame in 1999.
He has two daughters, Jennifer, 28, and Alyson, 19, and a granddaughter, Ellie, nine months. He is married to the former Heather Cullum, who is the Director of Guest Services for the Athletic Department.
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