Ken Knight, scientist, educator, author, and editor, is the Jesse Knight Professor of Exercise Sciences (no relation) at University, Chair of the National Athletic Trainers Association Education Council, and Editor of the Athletic Training Education Journal. He is a certified athletic trainer and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. His education includes two bachelors degrees (Physical Education & Chemistry) from Weber State University and a PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Widely traveled, Knight has held athletic training and/or academic positions at Weber State University (UT), the University of Missouri- Columbia, the State University of New York at Brockport, Indiana State University, and

Knight has authored 7 Books and chapters in 3 other books. He has also written over 100 journal articles and has given 250+ scholarly presentations. He has served on over 50 professional committees for the National Athletic Trainers Association, The American College of Sports Medicine, Canadian Athletic Therapy Association, and the Korean Association of Clinical Exercise Professionals, and numerous regional and state organizations.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Athletic Training for 11 years and is the founding editor of the Athletic Training Educational Journal. He also was an editor of Athletic Training: Perspectives in Sports Health. Care.

Knight's service has been recognized by his peers with numerous honors, including Halls of Fame, of the National, Rocky Mountain, and Athletic Trainers’ Associations, the William C. Clancy, Jr, MD, Medal for Distinguished Athletic Training Research, Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer, and the Sayers “Bud” Miller Distinguished Educator awards. In addition, the Journal of Athletic Training presents annually “The Kenneth L Knight Outstanding Research Article”

He also is very active in church and civic organizations, and is an avid genealogist. His greatest accomplishments, however, are the continued growth of his former students and his 39 year marriage to Shari and their 8 children and 8 grand children.

David O. Draper is a certified athletic trainer and professor of sports medicine/athletic training at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Prior to this appointment, he taught at Northern , and Illinois State Universities. He has served as the head athletic trainer at Illinois Wesleyan University and is an honorary research professor at Koriyama Institute of Health Sciences, in Fukushima Japan. During the fall of 2000, Draper spent part of his Sabbatical working as an Athletic Trainer for the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL.

Draper’s main love is teaching, and his favorite topics are therapeutic modalities, and evaluation of athletic injuries. An avid researcher, Draper has helped to re-write the textbooks regarding therapeutic ultrasound and diathermy. He has published over 70 articles in scientific journals and has been a speaker at many seminars in the United States, and in Scotland, Japan, Korea and China. Six of his articles received national awards from the Journal of Athletic Training. He has also written chapters on ultrasound and diathermy for two other textbooks. He has procured over $400,000 in research grants.

Draper’s service has been recognized by his peers with numerous honors, including the Eddie Wojecki award, top researcher in the College of Health and Human Performance at BYU, and the William G. Clancy Jr., M.D., medal for distinguished athletic training research.

David is currently an Associate editor of the Journal of Athletic Training. He has served as the chair of the written examination committee of the NATA-BOC, overseeing the development of the written certification exam for athletic trainers. He has served as President of the Utah Athletic Trainers Association for two terms. David and his wife Nancy are the parents of 5 children. For recreation, David loves to cross-country ski.