James Rankin, Ph.D, ATC
(James.Rankin@utoledo.edu)
Associate
Professor and Program Director
Dr.. James Rankin is the Program Director for The University of Toledo's CAATE-accredited undergraduate athletic training education program. He has been at UT since 1984 and a Certified Athletic Trainer since 1975. He obtained his Bachelor's degree from The University of Michigan in 1972, his Master's degree from Western Michigan University in 1974 and his Doctorate from Michigan State University in exercise science with a minor in anatomy in 1983. Dr. Rankin has seen the athletic training education program at UT grow from 7 athletic training students in the Fall quarter 1984 when he and head athletic trainer Dave Huffstetler arrived here to today's competitively admitted athletic training student corps of 40 students. The first six years he was at UT, Dr. Rankin was also the athletic trainer for men's basketball. Dr. Rankin is a licensed athletic trainer in Ohio. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association, the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association, the American College of Sports Medicine and the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Dr. Rankin is co-author (with Dr. Christopher Ingersoll (Ph.D. from UT, 1989)) of Athletic Training Management, now in a 3rd edition from McGraw-Hill. He has presented many times locally, regionally, and nationally. Since Dr. Rankin became full-time in the academic side of the UT Athletic Training Education Program, he has developed an ongoing program for Doctoral level graduate assistants who desire to become athletic training faculty. There have been thirteen Doctorate's completed (Christopher Ingersoll (University of Virginia), Brian Toy (University of Southern Maine), Cynthia McKnight (Azuza Pacific University), Mitchell Cordova (Indiana State University), Mark Merrick (Ohio State University) Susan Norkus (Quinnipiac University), Erik Swartz (University of New Hampshire), Thomas Cappaert (Central Michigan University), Robert Sterner (Rowan University), Tina Claiborne (University of Southern Maine), Wendy Batchelor Walkosky (University of Findlay), Alison Snyder (Arizona School of Health Sciences), and Heather Gulgin (University of Evansville)). Four Doctoral students are currently in their graduate work.
Dr. Rankin is married to Barb. They have two daughters, Joey Stringham - who completed a Masters degree in recreation at UT in 2001 and is now living in Colorado with her husband Lucas; and Mary - who graduated in May 2004 with a major in Art History). He enjoys his family, travel in the USA and Canada, photography, reading, theater, movies, Mexican food, and tennis, in no particular order.