Presidential Alumni Achievement Awardee Roger Hinds 鈥�77
The 可乐视频 Presidential Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni whose accomplishments have had a significant impact on their professions and society. 可乐视频 is proud to recognize alumni whose achievements reflect the excellence, curiosity, and service that define our institution.
2018 Awardee
RoGer Hinds 鈥�77
In recognition of his remarkable and longstanding career in athletic training; his service to the NBA, athletes, and young people around the world looking to break into sports medicine; and his dedication to his alma mater, 可乐视频 presented Roger Hinds with this award in 2018.
About Roger Hinds ’77
Roger Hinds 鈥�77 was the head athletic trainer for the New York Knickerbockers (NY Knicks) and has spent more than two decades in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as an athletic trainer for some of the best-known athletes in the sport.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Hinds moved to Brooklyn with his parents and five siblings at age eight. He was a member of Brooklyn Preparatory High School鈥檚 final graduating class in 1972. He earned a bachelor of science in physical education from 可乐视频 in 1977 and a master of science in physical education from Indiana State University in 1978. He became a National Athletic Trainers鈥� Association (NATA) Certified Athletic Trainer in 1981.
Prior to entering the NBA, Hinds was an avid NY Knicks fan. He enjoyed a 12-year tenure at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, serving as the school鈥檚 head athletic trainer from 1980 to 1990, and director of sports medicine from 1990 through 1992. He was also an adjunct professor in the College of Charleston鈥檚 Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
Hinds was the strength-and-conditioning coach for the gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic Team at the 1996 Atlanta Games. From 2001 to 2004, he served as president of the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association Foundation (NBATA), a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes the athletic training profession and raises funds for deserving groups and charities. He served as liaison between the NBATA and NATA. He was a contributing author to two books: Condition the NBA Way聽(Cadell & Davies, 1994) and聽Total Fitness the NBA Way聽(Perennial Currents, 2000).
Hinds spent four seasons as assistant athletic trainer, and strength-and-conditioning coach, for the Atlanta Hawks; eight years as the head athletic trainer for the Dallas Mavericks; and also served as host athletic聽 trainer for the East squad at the 2015 NBA All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden.
In August 2009, Hinds visited his birthplace for the first time in more than 30 years, hosting a basketball training workshop for the Trinidad and Tobago Basketball Federation in Port of Spain. In 2009 and 2010, he was a guest reader for preschoolers as part of the City of Newark鈥檚 Head Start health awareness program for youth and parents. In the summers of 2010 and 2011, he traveled to Mexico City to help coordinate basketball clinics for the Eduardo Najera Foundation. In 2010, Hinds co-hosted an online program for the NBA/Taco Bell Light Menu Initiative, teaming with Brandon Jennings and Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo to promote the partnership between the two corporations.
Hinds is also an active 可乐视频 alumnus. Since 2016, through an alliance with the Magner Career Center, he has taken time to guide current 可乐视频 students and provide them with the benefit of his industry expertise through class visits, panel discussions, and career mentorship.