SAN MARCOS, Texas – Aidan Pool has been named the new Director of Sports Medicine as Texas State Athletics announced a revamped athletic training department overseen by Pool and with the addition of five new full-time athletic trainers.
Under Pool, the new Texas State Athletics Sports Medicine staff members include:
- Reagan Golucke – assistant athletic trainer, women's basketball
- Christi Howell – assistant athletic trainer, football
- Ryinh Hunter – assistant athletic trainer, women's tennis
- Luke Parrish – assistant athletic trainer, track & field/cross country
- Arden Weninger – assistant athletic trainer, volleyball
The new staff members join current athletic trainers Brendan Ahern (interim head football athletic trainer), Taylor Lippert (assistant athletic trainer, women's soccer and women's golf) and Gabe Olivas (assistant athletic trainer, baseball and men's golf).
"When we went through our strategic planning process, athletic training and sports medicine became a focus point of ours to continue to provide a championship-level student-athlete experience," said Don Coryell, Texas State Director of Athletics. "We have now added several full-time staff members to this department which meets our overall goal of an athletic trainer assigned to each team. We also believe under Aidan's leadership and mentorship, our entire sports medicine department will benefit and grow to make this one of the top areas in the Sun Belt Conference and country. We are fortunate to have partners across campus to help support this transition, and we appreciate their collaboration as we enhance our athletic training staff and provide improved support for all of our student-athletes."
Pool is a Texas State graduate and returned to her alma mater in January 2023 after spending the previous five years at Stephen F. Austin as a graduate student and athletic trainer. She was the athletic trainer with Texas State softball during the team's run to an NCAA Regional before being elevated to her new role.
At SFA, Pool worked with a number of sports, including soccer, softball, indoor volleyball and beach volleyball programs, as well as served as the undergraduate program coordinator for athletic training.
Golucke is a Texas Tech graduate who came to Texas State after spending a year at Arizona as an assistant athletic trainer. At Arizona, she was the primary athletic trainer for the adaptive athletics program and also assisted with club sports. Prior to Arizona, she served as an assistant athletic trainer at Colorado-Colorado Springs and also has experience at University of Texas Southwestern, Lubbock Christian University and Texas Tech.
Howell was promoted to her new role as an assistant athletic trainer after serving as an athletic training graduate assistant at Texas State.
Hunter earned her bachelor's degree from Stephen F. Austin and master's from Tarleton State. She most recently was an athletic training student at Tarleton as she pursued her master's degree. With the Texans, she worked with men's and women's basketball, cheer and dance. While at SFA in her undergrad, she worked with a variety of sports, including football, women's soccer, track and field, and volleyball.
Parrish, a graduate of Texas State who also has a master's degree from Texas Tech, was the head athletic trainer for the Tucson Sugar Skulls of the Indoor Football League for the last year. Parrish also has experience working with the Denver Broncos and Las Vegas Raiders as an intern and Texas Tech (football, baseball and women's soccer).
Weninger was also promoted to her current role of assistant athletic trainer after previously serving as an athletic training graduate assistant at Texas State.
Texas State is actively filling open the full-time athletic trainer position with men's basketball.
