FOOTBALL SUPPORT STAFF CHuck Hall Head Equipment Manager Chuck Hall is in his third season as Head Equipment Manager for the University of Arkansas’ football team after joining the staff in May of 2011. Hall handles the ordering, maintaining and distribution of equipment for the Razorback football team as well as coordinates with the coaching staff to ensure all required practice accessories are where they should be for appropriate drills and workouts. He came to Arkansas with experience in the National Football League as well as the Big 12 and Big East. In his first season with the Razorbacks, he implemented a move to equip each player with a practice helmet and a game helmet while also improving helmet safety and fit for each player. He also oversaw a redesign of the equipment room to make it more functional for staff and players. Before coming to Arkansas, Hall spent the previous two years at Kansas State, where he led the equipment department for head football coach Bill Snyder. Prior to working with the Wildcats, Hall served nine seasons at Louisville, including eight as director of equipment operations. Hall spent the 2000 season as Louisville’s assistant equipment manager and was promoted prior to the 2001 season. Hall worked as a student equipment manager at Kansas State from 1995-98 and was hired as a full-time assistant following his graduation. While he was a student, he also served a summer internships with the Washington Redskins and the San Diego Chargers. He is married to the former Leslie Begshaw. The couple has one child, Averie.
MATT SUMMERS Director of Athletic Training Matt Summers, who spent four seasons as the Razorbacks’ Head Athletic Trainer for Football, was promoted to Director of Athletic Training in February 2013. In his role, Summers oversees all of Arkansas’ athletic training department, leading the staff of full-time, graduate assistant and student athletic trainers. He also is in charge of developing and implementing healthc are policies and procedures for student-athletes, coordinating contractual agreements with health care providers that make up the Sports Medicine Team and managing the athletic training budget. Summers also continues his duties with the football program. Along with the collaboration of team physicians, he is responsible for directly overseeing the health care of football student-athletes. He also develops, designs and implements strategies to prevent, treat and rehabilitate athletic and non-athletic related injuries. Before coming to Arkansas, Summers spent the 200809 year as senior athletic trainer at the University of Kentucky. He was the director of rehabilitation, generated daily injury reports for coaches, supervised graduate assistants and students, was responsible for the budget and supplies and maintained injury records. During the 2006 and 2007 football seasons, he was assistant athletic trainer for the NFL’s San Diego Chargers. He conducted and monitored the rehabilitation program, monitored the field and communicated with the coaching staff during practices, managed inventory and budgeting and was responsible for the interviewing and hiring of summer students and seasonal interns. Following the 2007 season, Summers was a member of the 2008 AFC Pro Bowl Athletic Training staff. He worked at the University of Louisville from 200306. Summers was a graduate assistant from May 2003 through June 2005 and assistant athletic trainer from 2005 until going to San Diego in 2006. With the Cardinals, he assisted the head athletic trainer with the prevention, assessment and care of athletic injuries related to football, designed and implemented rehabilitation protocols and recruited and supervised graduate assistants and students. As a graduate assistant, his responsibilities included assisting in the design, implementation and documentation of rehabilitation protocols and supervising the student staff. Summers began his career as a student athletic trainer at the University of Kentucky, where he worked with the football, men’s basketball and men’s tennis teams. He earned his bachelor’s degree in education majoring in kinesiology from Kentucky in 2002 and his master’s degree in health and wellness from Louisville in 2005. After graduating from Kentucky, he interned with the Chargers during the 2002 NFL season. Summers is married to the former Kim Ahr and the couple has a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Ashlyn. PAGE 198