Courtesy Wheaton Sports Information

NORTON, MA- Wheaton College has announced the hiring of Dave Cox as assistant athletic trainer, effective August 14, 2006. Cox's addition comes after Adam Eastwood resigned to accept a sales position at Surgi-Care, Inc. With Eastwood's departure, assistant Kathy DiSilvestri was promoted to associate athletic trainer.

Cox brings a wealth of experience to Wheaton, having most recently served as assistant athletic trainer at Alfred University in Alfred, New York for the past two years. At Alfred, Cox primarily worked with women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and diving, and men's lacrosse. He was also an instructor in an athletic training education program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).

Prior to his employment at Alfred, Cox was a graduate assistant athletic trainer from July 2001 to June 2003 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He worked with 17 athletic programs at nearby Hixson High School during his first year with Chattanooga before serving as the athletic trainer for intramural and club sports at Chattanooga in 2002-03.

From August 1999 to May 2001, Cox was an athletic training student at Florida State University in Tallahassee. During that time, he was the head student athletic trainer for tennis and worked heavily with track and field, five additional varsity sports and three club sports teams.

After receiving an associate's degree in exercise science from Santa Fe Community College in his hometown of Gainesville, Florida in 1998, Cox earned a degree in sports medicine from Florida State in 2001. In 2004, Cox completed his master's degree in athletic training at Chattanooga.

Wheaton is a selective national liberal arts college with 1,550 students drawn from virtually every state and more than 60 countries. The college combines a traditional curriculum in the arts and sciences with an innovative emphasis on real-world experience - internships, jobs and volunteer service - to help students make the connection between theory and practice. Its students gain admission to the nation's most prestigious graduate programs and regularly win competitive academic awards such as the Rhodes, Marshall and Fulbright scholarships.

Wheaton (Mass.) Transaction - Named Dave Cox assistant athletic trainer. Promoted Kathy DiSilvestri to associate athletic trainer.