Jim Lancaster
Inducted 2017
Hometown: San Antonio
High School: MacArthur High School
College: The University of Texas at Austin, Pan American University
Best Known for: Athletic Training
Lancaster has been the Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine at UTPA/UTRGV since 1980. He started as an athletic trainer in high school in San Antonio, then at The University of Texas. After earning his bachelor's degree in Physical Education in 1980 from the University of Texas, Lancaster came to the Rio Grande Valley.
He earned his master's degree at Pan American University while serving as the program's full-time head athletic trainer. Lancaster has worked with thousands of student-athletes; worked alongside hundreds of coaches and trained and mentored numerous athletic trainers. Noteworthy among them are Mike Mancias, who works with Lebron James; Joe Resendez, the assistant athletic trainer for the Los Angeles Clippers; and Alfred Castillo, the head athletic trainer at Southeast Missouri State.
Many others continue to provide athletic injury care at local high schools here in the Rio Grande Valley. Lancaster also acted as the Medical Coordinator for the National Youth Sports Program, a federally funded program of summer sports activities for local children held on the UTPA campus for 25 years. He is a Licensed Athletic Trainer through the Texas Department of Health and is a BOC Certified member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association.
