SPORTS MEDICINE
DAVID RULE • Athletic Trainer avid Rule is in his third season as a member of the athletic training staff at South Dakota State University. In addition to his work with the Jackrabbit football team, Rule oversee sports medicine operations in the Dykhouse Student-Athlete Center.
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Rule has worked with football teams both at the collegiate and professional level for the past seven years. While an undergraduate student at Purdue University, Rule worked with the Boilermaker football program as a senior, assisting in day-to-day operations in the training room and on the practice field and aiding in in-season and offseason rehabilitation programs. Prior to arriving at South Dakota State, Rule served a year-long internship with the Baltimore Ravens, with whom he constructed and implemented rehabilitation programs for injured athletes, maintained athletes’ medical records and assisted in the daily operations of the training room. He also completed a year-long internship with the Green Bay Packers from May 2008 to May 2009 and spent the summers of 2005 and 2006 as a summer intern with the Buffalo Bills.
• Third Season Alma Mater: A 2007 graduate of Purdue, Rule later enrolled in graduate school at West Virginia University. As a member of • Purdue (Ind.), 2007 the Mountaineers’ training staff, Rule assisted with physician consultations and also served as an Approved Clinical Instructor to undergraduate students in the Athletic Training Education Program.
SPORTS MEDICINE STAFF
Owen Stanley
Ben Heinze
David Kragness
Lisa Spors
Steven Labate
Danise Maas
Assistant ADSports Medicine
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer
Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer
Dr. Brian Aamlid
Dr. Brad Reeves
Dr. Verle Valentine
Dr. Merritt Warren
Team Physician
Team Physician
Team Physician
Team Physician
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