West Virginia University Athletics

Vince Blankenship, a member of the West Virginia athletic training staff since 2014, has served as the assistant athletics director/head athletic trainer for football since 2019.

Prior to that, he was an assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist, working primarily with the Mountaineer football and golf programs. He was named athletics rehabilitation specialist in the fall of 2016.

Blankenship provides oversight of the athletics medical unit for the football team, including the day-to-day operation of the training room. He supervises the daily care, rehabilitation and prevention of athletic injuries for the football program, as well as supervises the long-term rehabilitation with all other WVU sports on campus.

Prior to WVU, Blankenship worked with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions and the University of Georgia football programs. While working towards his doctorate in physical therapy at the Medical College of Georgia, which he earned in 2013, Blankenship worked as a part-time athletic trainer for University Hospital and Augusta University, covering high school and collegiate sports.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science with an athletic training emphasis from Georgia in 2009.  He is also a Titleist Performance Institute Level II Medical Professional. He and his wife, Idania, have two sons, Noah and Eli.