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Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Director of Sports Medicine/M. Basketball
- Email:
- fred@GoCards.com
- Phone:
- 852-0116
Fred Hina is in his 20th year as Head Men’s Athletic Trainer for the University of Louisville men’s basketball team and his eighth year as Director of Sports Medicine.
Hina (pronounced HEE-nuh) is a 1987 graduate of Western Kentucky with a degree in health care administration and a 2004 graduate of the University of Alabama with a Master’s of Arts Degree in health studies.
Hina managed the entire UofL Athletics sports medicine department for several years and currently assists Senior Director of Sports Medicine Matt Summers in that oversight.
Prior to his arrival at UofL, he spent 15 years as an athletic trainer in the New York Mets organization, including the last seven years as head athletic trainer for the major league team in New York.
The Mets reached two league championship series while Hina was with the Mets. The Mets lost in six games in the National League Championship Series in 1999 before advancing to the World Series the following year, falling in five games to the New York Yankees in the 2000 “Subway Series.”
Hina was honored as the minor league trainer of the year in 1994. He was the National League training representative to the Triple-A All-Star game in 1994 and was the trainer for the Florida State League All-Star game in 1989.
Hina is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association as well as the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He and his wife Gina have three sons: Jared, Justin and Jacob.
