Donald D. Lowe, Honorary - Syracuse University Athletics

As the coordinator of sports medicine at Syracuse University for 25 years, Don Lowe was a mentor to dozens of Syracuse University athletic trainers who have gone onto successful careers in the NBA, NFL, NHL, USA Basketball, ESPN X Games and elsewhere, while many of his staff members have received prestigious awards. Lowe left the University in 2000 to become the director of sports medicine at Georgia Tech and in 2003 , he created Sports Medicine Management Consultants.

Lowe was recognized for his dedication to sports medicine with the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s 1987 College Athletic Trainer of the Year Award and 1995 Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. He won the 1983 NYS Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Thomas Sheehan Award and the 1991 Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Cramer Award. He was inducted into both the NYS Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Hall of Fame and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Hall of Fame in 1999, and the South Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Hall of Fame in 2001.

In 1986, Lowe founded and served as executive director of Onondaga Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, the first sports medicine clinic in the Syracuse area, was active in the National Kidney Foundation of Central New York and served as volunteer host athletic trainer for numerous Empire State Games.

He was athletic trainer for the 1983 Pan American Games men’s basketball team and on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s athletic training staff for the 1992 Games in Barcelona. In 1992, he formed the College Athletic Trainers Society and served as the executive director and was instrumental in the certification of athletic trainers by NYS Department of Education in the late 1990s.

The athletic training area in the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center will be named the Donald and Mary Lowe Sports Medicine Facility.