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Danny Poole is in his eighth season as Clemson's Director of Sports Medicine, but he is a veteran of more than 24 years working in the Tiger athletic training facility. He supervises the training needs of all student-athletes, but his primary area of emphasis is with the football program.
Poole, 50, has 27 years of full-time experience in the athletic training field. He served as the head athletic trainer for the Carolina Chargers of the American Football Association in 1979. In 1980, he became an assistant trainer at the University of Memphis. During his career as a full-time assistant at Memphis, he earned his Master's degree in health education. Poole came to Clemson in 1984.
A 1979 graduate of Western Carolina University, Poole earned a Bachelor's degree in health and physical education. He was student athletic trainer for the Catamounts for four years. He was published in the NATA Journal in 1979, "The D.P. Method for Blisters" as a student at Western Carolina.
Poole was honored in 2001 by his peers with the Athletic Trainers Service Award. The award is presented by the National Athletic Trainers Association to role models who are future leaders of the athletic training profession. Poole, a native of Charlotte, NC, is married to the former Beth Morgan, and the couple has two children, Jacqui (20) a student at Clemson University, and Abby (18) who attends Charleston Southern University and is a member of the women's basketball team.
