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Sean Devine, MD
27th Year • UC Davis ‘79
Cal Poly Football Support Staff
Orthopedic Surgeon/Team Physician
A longtime supporter of Cal Poly athletics, Dr. Sean Devine continues to assist the athletic training staff weekly and on the sidelines during game days. Devine graduated from UC Davis and UC Davis Medical School. He did his surgical residency in San Diego and his Sports Medicine fellowship at the prestigious Steadman-Hawkins Clinic. In addition he did a sports medicine rotation with James Andrews, Md., in Birmingham, Ala. Devine has been in private practice in San Luis Obispo since the late 1980s, specializing in shoulder and knee injuries. He is also the team physician for Arroyo Grande High School and Cuesta College. Devine resides in Arroyo Grande with his wife, Eve, and children, Sarah and Jacob.
Steven J. Sainsbury, MD 12th Year • UCLA ‘77
Staff Physician/Team Physician
Dr. Steven J. Sainsbury begins his 12th season as a team physician for Cal Poly athletics. Sainsbury, a flight surgeon for the U.S. Air Force from 1983-85, has served as physician director at March Air Force Base and Mee Memorial Hospital in King City as well as a staff physician at Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside General Hospital and, presently, at both Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton and Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo. Sainsbury also has written for several publications, including Inland Empire Magazine, Twins Magazine, Delta Airlines In-Flight Magazines and Sunset Magazine. He was an instructor at Cuesta College from 1997-99 and has taught a kinesiology class at Cal Poly on tobacco, alcohol and drug use. Sainsbury earned his bachelor’s degree in microbiology at UCLA in 1977 and graduated from the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C., in 1982. He served a flexible internship at the USAF Scott Medical Center in Illinois in 1983, completed his emergency medicine residency in 1987 at Highland General Hospital in Oakland and is presently a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Sainsbury, 63, is an author and expert witness as well. He and his wife, Lynnly, reside in San Luis Obispo and they have eight children.
Elias Levanway
Third Year • Vanguard ‘04
Assistant Athletic Trainer (Football)
Elias Levanway enters his third season as an assistant athletic trainer at Cal Poly. Hired in March 2015 to replace James Eggen, Levanway’s primary responsibilities are football and assisting in daily athletic training room coverage. Levanway was interim athletic trainer at Laguna Beach High School for four months before accepting his current position. He also served four months as head athletic trainer at Santa Monica City College and four years (2010-14) at Chaffey College, where he also worked as an adjunct professor. Levanway returned to California during the summer of 2010 after working 11 months (2009-10) at Columbia College and three years (2006-09) at Iona College, both as an assistant athletic trainer. He was head athletic trainer at St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria. During that time he also served as a physical therapy aide at Sims Physical Therapy as well as assisting at Cuesta College in various athletic tourna-
ments. During the summer of 2006, he served as a trainer for football camps in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego. A 2004 graduate of Vanguard University of Southern California, Levanway earned his bachelor's degree in athletic training. He served as a student trainer at both Vanguard and Orange Coast College. Levanway earned his master's in kinesiology and exercise science in July 2006 from California University of Pennsylvania. Born in Oneonta, N.Y., Levanway moved to California at the age of 14 and grew up in various cities along the Central Coast, including Arroyo Grande, Pismo Beach and Paso Robles. He was home-schooled during high school and played football at Pacific Coast Christian (grades 9-11) in Arroyo Grande and North County Christian (12th grade) in Atascadero. Levanway and his wife Wendy have two daughters, Zoya (6) and Audrey (4), and one son, Xander (eight months). They reside in Morro Bay, Calif.
Kristal Slover
25th Year • Cal State Fullerton ‘90 Director of Sports Medicine, ATC
Now in her 25th year as an athletic trainer at Cal Poly, Kristal Slover begins her 16th year as the department’s head athletics trainer. On July 1, 2002, Slover replaced Steve Yoneda, who retired after 32 years at Cal Poly. During her tenure at Cal Poly, Slover has helped lead the successful Cal Poly Sports Medicine program by directing all student-athletics trainers and serving as a guest lecturer for several classes and labs at Cal Poly and Cuesta College. She also serves as the Registration Chair for the Far West Athletic Trainers Association’s Annual Symposium. A graduate of Cal State Fullerton, Slover and husband, John, are the proud parents of two daughters, Janna Marie (16) and Kacie (13).
Eric Burdick
17th Year • Cal Poly ‘73
Director of Athletics Communications
Eric Burdick is in his 17th year of service in the Cal Poly Athletics Communications Office, becoming director on March 31, 2014, after stints as an intern (2001-02) and assistant director (2002-14) He was promoted to assistant athletics director in 2017. Prior to coming to Cal Poly, Burdick was sports editor at the San Luis Obispo County Tribune for over 20 years. A 1973 Cal Poly graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Burdick earned his secondary teaching credential a year later. During the 1970s, he was sports information director of the Calif. Collegiate Athletic Assn., Cuesta College and the Central Conference before becoming sports editor at the Five Cities Times-Press-Recorder for two years (1977-79). He was sports information director of men’s sports at Cal Poly for the 1979-80 school year prior to his stint at The Tribune, where he earned an award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for best sports photo.
Sarah Qualle
First Year • Cal Poly ‘19 Student Manager
A 2015 graduate of Ripon High School, Sarah will help with filming and editing as well as other projects. Qualle is in her third year at Cal Poly, majoring in nutrition. She was a cheerleader for football and basketball at Ripon High. Parents are Kevin and Melissa Qualle and Sarah has one sister, Emily.