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Retired in 2012 after 47 years as high school athletic trainer, the last 38 years at Highland Park High School in Dallas, TX. Currently serving as outreach athletic trainer for Texas Orthopedic Associates, a group of sports-oriented physicians in the Dallas area. Member of Southwest Athletic Trainers' Assn. (SWATA) since 1965, serving as president 1995-96. Inducted into SWATA Hall of Fame July 2000. Helped to form the North Texas Athletic Trainers' Society (NTATS) in 2000, and served as president 2000-2002. NTATS created the "Doug Gibbins Above & Beyond Award" in 2008 to be given to qualified members of the association. In 2013, Highland Park High School created the "Doug Gibbins Sports Medicine Award" to be given to outstanding student athletic trainers who served the program. Worked with rodeo cowboys as a volunteer athletic trainer with the Justin Sports Medicine Program from 1991 till 2009. Athletes I worked with at Highland Park High School include Matthew Stafford (Detroit Lions quarterback), Clayton Kershaw(LA Dodgers pitcher and two-time Cy Young Award winner) and Chris Young (pitcher for Seattle Mariners; 2007 NL All-Star and 2014 AL Comeback Player of the Year). Hobbies include fishing, reading baseball history, and Civil War history. Currently serving as public address announcer for high school and middle school football, as well as high school basketball, softball, and baseball.