Ohio University Soccer Reunion September 23-25, 2005

Don Kirkendall

Family: Married 1982 in LaCrosse, WI to Sara. Son Trevor born 1983, daughter Katy born 1985. Trevor is a senior at East Carolina University, Katy is a junior at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, NC. Sara works as a medical desk receptionist.

Career: Been around a number of blocks (none as interesting as Hugh, though). After too much school, here is the list: 1979-1981 faculty University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse; 1981-1988 at the Cleveland Clinic's Section of Sports Medicine (but most importantly, a neighbor of Roberts!), 1988-1995 faculty Illinois State University, 1995-1998 Sports Medicine Section Duke University Medical Center; 1998-2003 orthopaedics department University of North Carolina; 2003-present private contractor and freelance medical writer/editor in NC concentrating in orthopaedics, sports medicine and exercise science-main contracts anyone might have heard of are with Duke, UNC, US Soccer, FIFA

Additional education: MA Ball State University 1975, PhD The Ohio State University 1979 in physiology of exercise

Locations/residences since Ohio: Muncie IN, Los Angeles CA, Columbus OH, LaCrosse WI, Cleveland Hts OH, Normal IL, Cary NC

Recreation/hobbies/sports (continuation with soccer?): Have to say "soccer's been very, very good to me." Coached 4 yrs at Ball State, 9th graders while at OSU (my favorite team), U10 in Cleveland and Normal. Earned a USSF 'B' license in 1975. Been on the USSF sports medicine committee since moving to Duke (my boss was and is the lead MD for US Soccer). Big job right now is working in education for FIFA's medical research program for the past couple years. Sorry, I've no pull on World Cup tickets for me or anyone else, besides, all 2006 tickets are already sold to ticket brokers. Continued to play after OU with Ft Wayne SC, then in LA and Columbus Olympic while at OSU, but a knee injury this past February convinced me I was living on borrowed time. Been a jogger since forever and continue with that…an unapologetic Duke basketball fan…my son and I are movie nuts and my daughter picked up my science genes and is a nursing student.

Health: A living lab for soccer injuries…concussions, sprained knees, chronic ankle instability, broken ribs, separated shoulder, detached retina, strained muscles, developing arthritis in both knees and neck…and those are the ones I can remember.

Significant events: positive and negative After marriage and the kids, the rest has been entertainment.

Anything else you'd like to add: I started out as a PE major and ended up as a medical writer/editor - go figure. If interested, you can find some soccer stuff at www.SouthernSoccerScene.com - a regional monthly in the southeast. You may or may not remember at OU I worked as a lab assistant in human anatomy (still in contact with that prof) and that may explain why I gravitated to working in orthopaedics and sports medicine. Worked with lots of stars in my field and got opportunities to participate in plenty of research most recently on knee and head injuries and I write/edit in sports medicine and soccer medicine.