Yellow Jackets
GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL 2011
Preston
Punt
PEHRSON
WINDHAM
Staff Assistant 1st Year at Georgia Tech Towson (2009)
Assistant Equipment Manager 9th Year at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech (1994)
Preston Pehrson begins his first year with the Georgia Tech football program as a staff assistant, working primarily with the offense. Before coming to Atlanta in March, Pehrson worked this past spring as a graduate assistant at Lamar University. Last fall, he served as outside linebackers coach and assistant tight ends coach at Houston Christian High School in Texas. Growing up in Annapolis, Md., Pehrson was an all-state performer in both football and baseball at Broadneck High School. After high school, Pehrson attended Jacksonville University for two years and played two seasons with the Dolphins baseball team. He then transferred to the University of Texas for one year before finishing his college career at Towson University. Pehrson earned his degree in sports management with a minor in business from Towson University in 2009. In 2007, Pehrson was taken in the 47th round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Baltimore Orioles and played two years in the minor leagues. Born Sept. 25, 1984, in Salt Lake City, Pehrson and wife, Kim, reside in Atlanta.
Punt Windham, coordinator of football equipment, begins his ninth season at Georgia Tech, his alma mater. Windham, a certified equipment manager, handles the day-to-day operations of the football equipment room including handling and ordering equipment and uniforms, maintenance of equipment and travel logistics of the equipment. Since coming back to his alma mater in 2003, Windham has been a part of eight straight bowl appearances with the Yellow Jackets. Prior to working at Georgia Tech, Windham served eight years at the University of Texas, where he served as head baseball equipment manager and assistant football equipment manger. While in Austin, Windham worked with the Longhorn baseball team that captured the 2002 NCAA championship and also appeared in the 2000 College World Series. Windham graduated from Georgia Tech in 1994 with a degree in industrial engineering. He worked as a student manager for the Yellow Jacket football team, which captured a share of the national championship in 1990. Windham, 39, grew up in Lilburn, Ga. Windham and wife, Kim, were married in 2010.
Andrew
RODRIGUES Staff Assistant 1st Year at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech (2009) Andrew Rodrigues, who graduated from Georgia Tech and has been around the Yellow Jacket football program for six years, begins his first season as a staff assistant. Rodrigues will primarily assist the Tech defensive coaches this fall. A 2009 Georgia Tech graduate with a degree in public policy, Rodrigues worked four years as a student assistant equipment manager.
TERI ANTON Administrative Coordinator
JASON BENGUCHE Player Development
CHRIS BREEN Assistant Director/ Academic Services
TIM BROWN Academic Coach
WHITNEY BURTON Academic Coach
DR. ANGELO GALANTE Team Physician
DR. AARON KING Team Dentist
DERRICK MOORE Team Chaplain
JENNIFER PARDUE Administrative Assistant
MERCE POINDEXTER Academic Coach
NANCI QUATROCCHI Academic Coach
I-SHIEN SHIAO Assistant Athletic Trainer
LEAH THOMAS Director of Total Person Services
JULIAN WILLIAMS Academic Coach
DR. JOHN XEROGEANES
Jay
SHOOP Director of Sports Medicine 23rd Year at Georgia Tech East Tennessee State (1970) Jay Shoop, a 42-year veteran of the sports medicine profession, returned to Georgia Tech in 2002 as director of sports medicine after a year as head trainer for the Detroit Lions. Shoop, who oversees all areas of the sports medicine program for the Yellow Jackets’ 17 varsity sports, previously served as Tech’s director of sports medicine and head trainer from 1987-1999. Shoop, 63, first came to Tech in 1987 after a two-year stint as head trainer for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He also served two years (1983-84) as head trainer of the Michigan Panthers of the USFL, and seven seasons as an assistant trainer for the Atlanta Falcons. A native of Wise, Va., Shoop earned a B.S. degree from East Tennessee State University in 1970 and a master’s degree in 1976 from Furman, where he was head trainer for six years (1970-76). Shoop served as the chief trainer for the Olympic Village for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games and as the head trainer for the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia. An avid collector of historical sports memorabilia, Shoop authored the official history of the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association in 1988. Shoop is married to the former Anne Brockman. The couple has two children: Farrah, a Tech graduate and husband Corey Gamel, and Lynn and wife Meredith. The Shoops have four grandchildren, Logan, Summer, Owen and Bree.
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