Biography:

In his role as head athletic trainer, David Gish oversees a Texas State athletic training staff which includes two full-time assistants, five graduate assistants and more than 45 student trainers. He is in his eighth year as the ‘Cats head trainer and is in his 16th year on the Texas State training staff. Gish is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and is a licensed athletic trainer in the state of Texas. He serves as the I-AA representative on the College/University Athletic Training Committee for District Six of NATA. He is also a past-president of the Alamo Area Athletic Trainers Association and has served as the District Eight representative for the Texas State Athletic Trainers Association.

During his tenure at Texas State, Gish has worked at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and was a member of the training staff at the 1995 U.S. Sports Festival in Denver. He was appointed to the medical staff for the USA Track and Field Team when it participated in the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy.

Gish came to Texas State in January, 1990, from San Marcos High School where he was the Rattlers’ head athletic trainer for four years. He also worked as an assistant athletic trainer at Louisiana-Lafayette (formerly Southwestern Louisiana) for two years. Gish began his athletic training background under Dennis Hart at North Mesquite High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree from North Texas in 1984 and completed a master’s degree from Texas State in 1990.

Gish and his wife Karen, a 1987 Texas State graduate, have a daughter, Madison (seven) and a son, Hayden (four).