Vince Blankenship serves as the Razorbacks’ Associate Director of Sports Medicine and the football program’s head athletic trainer
He had been a member of the West Virginia athletic training staff since 2014 and was the Assistant Athletics Director/Head Athletic Trainer for Football since 2019.
With the Mountaineers, he oversaw the athletics medical unit for the football team, including the day-to-day operation of the training room. He supervised the daily care, rehabilitation and prevention of athletic injuries for the football program, as well as managing the long-term rehabilitation for all WVU sports.
Before his time at West Virginia, Blankenship worked with the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Detroit Lions in the NFL and the University of Georgia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science with an athletic training emphasis in 2009 and worked with the football program. While working towards his doctorate in physical therapy at the Medical College of Georgia, which he earned in 2013, he worked as a part-time athletic trainer for University Hospital and Augusta University, covering high school and collegiate sports. He is also a Titleist Performance Institute Level II Medical Professional.
Blankenship and his wife, Idania, have two sons, Noah and Eli.
