Hall of Fame
DALE MILDENBERGER
Hometown: Fort Morgan, Colo.
Contributor to Utah State Athletics
Dale Mildenberger spent 39 years as the Head Athletic Trainer at Utah State University. As a Senior Associate Athletics Director and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department, he was responsible for the health of all of USU's student-athletes, while also overseeing video operations, the strength and conditioning program, the equipment area and teaching and supervising the graduate athletic training program. He received numerous awards during his time at USU, including being inducted into the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 1994, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 1998 and being named to the inaugural Utah Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 2003. In addition, he was named the 2004 Utah Athletic Trainer of the Year and most recently received the 2014 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Distinguished Trainer Award. In 2008, Utah State's new sports medicine area located inside the Jim & Carol Laub Athletics-Academics Complex was named in his honor. Prior to coming to Utah State, Mildenberger was an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Arizona (1974-75), assistant athletic trainer at the United States Military Academy (1969-72) and the head athletic trainer for the Harlem Globetrotters (1969, 1973). A 1973 graduate of Colorado State, he earned a master's degree from Arizona in 1975.
