Bill Bean - Athletics Trainer
Bill Bean was the Head Athletic Trainer for the University of Utah from 1976-2008, working primarily with the football program. For the entirety of his career he served the student-athletes and student athletic trainers on a daily basis, providing support, encouragement and care for student-athletes while teaching and mentoring student athletic trainers. Thousands of student-athletes benefited directly from his care, and many student athletic trainers went on to successful careers in health care. He is a member of both the Utah Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Training Association Hall of Fame.
Bean was also instrumental in creating a collaborative environment between the athletics department and the University of Utah Sports Medicine physicians. This collaboration raised student-athletes' access to health care to an elite level.
Bean was chosen as the 2002 winner of the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award from the NATA. In 2003, he was inducted into both the Utah Athletic Trainers Association (UATA) Hall of Fame and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Training Association Hall of Fame (RMATA), of which he was a member since 1968. He held numerous leadership positions for UTUA, including vice president and chair of the licensure committee.
Prior to his long and distinguished tenure at Utah, Bean served as a U.S. Army medical officer, an assistant athletic trainer at Washington State University, and the head trainer for the Utah Stars of the ABA. He also worked as a volunteer on the medical staff for the Olympic Games in Lake Placid (1980) and Salt Lake City (2002).
Been earned his bachelor of science degree with a sports medicine concentration from Utah State University in 1971, and received his Master's degree from the University of Utah in 1978. In 1986 he successfully completed an additional bachelor of science degree in physical therapy from the University of Utah, where he continued to work as a part-time staff physical therapist within the Orthopedic Center.
