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David Gish, who served as a member of the Texas State athletics training staff for nearly 25 years, passed away on Sept. 22, 2014, at the age of 52. .

Gish was a member of Texas State’s Athletic Training staff for nearly 25 years and was in his 17th year as the head athletics trainer. He oversaw a staff of four full-time assistants and nine graduate assistants.
 
Gish was been a member of Texas State’s athletics training staff from 1990-2014, serving as the head athletics trainer since 1998. He also was in the second year of a four-year term and first year of a two-year term as president on the Executive Board of the Southwest Athletics Trainers Association.
 
Previously, he served as the NCAA Division I FCS representative on the College/University Athletic Training Committee for District VI of the National Athletic Trainers Association.
 
Gish also served as president for the Alamo Area’s Athletics Trainers Association in 1999. He also was involved in the development of the Texas State Athletics Trainers Association in 2000 and elected to represent the group's Region Eight.
 
In 2007, he helped develop and write a sports medicine course for high school athletics trainers in the Texas State Athletic Trainers Association, and was an instructor for that course.
 
Gish earned the National Athletics Trainers Association’s Service Award in 2010 for his distinctive and sustained service to the profession.
 
Last July, Gish received the SWATA’s Eddie Wojecki Award, which is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the organization within the past two years, and was inducted into the Alamo Area’s Athletics Trainers Association Hall of Fame.
 
Born June 26, 1962, in Dallas, Gish came to Texas State after serving as the athletics trainer at San Marcos High School for four years and as an assistant athletics trainer at UL Lafayette for two years. He began his athletic training career at North Mesquite High School.

He earned a bachelor’s degree at North Texas in 1984 and completed his master’s degree at Texas State in 1990. He is survived by his wife, Karen, and two children, Madison and Hayden; his parents, Ginger and Malcom Gish; and a sister, Gina.