Reg Mungrue - Head Athletic Trainer

Reg Mungrue became the latest Highland Cavaliers addition to the athletic training department. Mungrue will team with the UVa-Wise other head athletic trainer Ryan Georgi for a veteran and experienced tandem to aid the student-athletes.

Mungrue comes south from upstate New York and Plattsburgh State University to join Georgi in the Cavs’ athletic training department. He moves into a head athletic trainer spot after serving as assistant athletic trainer for NCAA Division III Plattsburgh State for the past four years.

The Toronto, Ontario native led the athletic training efforts for the Cardinals’ men’s soccer, men’s basketball, women’s hockey and softball squads from 2004-08. Mungrue spent the previous two years (2002-04) as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.

The new athletic trainer had the experience of being the Canadian Junior National Baseball team head athletic trainer for the 2001-02 seasons. He was also a graduate assistant at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec in 2001 while completing clinical internships at the University of South Florida and Sheridan Athletic Injury Clinic and Oakville Sports Medicine Center (Oakville, Ontario).

Mungrue completed athletic training internships for the Toronto Blue Jays, University of Toronto and Brock University over the 1996 through 2000.

The UVa-Wise athletic trainer earned his bachelor of arts degree in physical education from Brock University in 1998. He added a diploma in sports injury management from Sheridan College (1998-2001) before earned his master’s of science degree in sports and exercise science from West Texas A & M University in the spring of 2004.