Staff Directory
- Title:
- Assistant Director of Sports Medicine - Head Football AT, Women's Golf
- Email:
- Phone:
- 918.631.5227
Chris Nerio was named the school’s assistant athletics director for student-athlete health and performance and director of sports medicine in July 2018. His current appointment came after 14 years as a key member of The University of Tulsa’s sports medicine department.
During his tenure at Tulsa, Nerio has served as associate director for sports medicine for four years (2015-18), working with football and women’s golf. Before that, he was an assistant athletic trainer for 10 years, assuming that role in July 2005.
Now, Nerio oversees the entire health and performance department, while also serving as head athletic trainer for the football program.
Before coming to Tulsa, Nerio was the head athletic trainer for the Rhein Fire, an NFL Europe team, in Germany. He also served as an athletic training intern for the Kansas City Chiefs, a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Tulsa, and a student athletic trainer at Oklahoma State University.
He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association and the Oklahoma Athletic Trainers’ Association, where he served as treasurer from 2010 to 2017. Nerio made a significant contribution as collaborator for a recent published article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled: Relationship of Collegiate Football Experience and Concussion With Hippocampal Volume and Cognitive Outcomes
Nerio earned his bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State in 2001 and his master's degree from Tulsa in 2003.
Nerio and his wife, Jill, have three children: daughters Brooklyn and Raegan, and son Jamison.
