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Frank Neu returned to Central as an assistant athletic trainer in 2010 and was promoted to head athletic trainer in 2011. He also teaches in the kinesiology department and serves coordinator of the drug education and testing program at Central. Since 2019 he's served on the college's Behavioral Intervention Team.
A 1991 Central graduate, Neu previously served as assistant athletic trainer at Drake Univ. for five years. Earlier, he spent eight years as head athletic trainer at Lycoming College (Pa.). He earned a master’s degree at Drake and served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer there for three years.
Neu has worked at numerous championship and other postseason events, including serving as co-medical coordinator for the NCAA Division III Baseball Championships in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. He also made 17 trips as an athletic trainer for the AFCA Division III all-star football squad at the Aztec Bowl and Stars and Stripes Bowl games in Mexico. He was the sports medicine coordinator for the Budd Whitehill Division III National Wrestling Duals from 1998-2005.
A National Athletic Training Association member since 1990, Neu joined the Iowa Athletic Trainers’ Association in 2005 and is the organization’s president from 2016-18 after previously serving as treasurer for four years. He was a member of the IATS executive team for 10 years.. He was named the IATS College/University Athletic Trainer of the Year in 2017.While at Lycoming, Neu was a member of the Eastern Athletic Training Association, the Pennsylvania Athletic Training Association and the College Athletic Trainers’ Society. He was the athletic training chair of the Middle Atlantic Conference in 2004-05.
