Edwin

Edwin Detweiler

Edwin Detweiler is entering his 14th year at SWOSU and fourth as the Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine, a role he assumed in August 2019. He oversees all the athletic training practices at SWOSU while serving as the Head Athletic Trainer for the Bulldog Football team.

During Detweiler's time in Weatherford, the athletic training services have seen vast improvements, which has most recently included the introduction of Vivature software in the training room. He has overseen the renovation of training rooms in Rankin Williams Fieldhouse and the Pioneer Cellular Event Center while leading a staff of three full-time Assistant Athletic Trainers. He has had two opportunities to do an internship with the United States Olympic Training Center, going to Chula Vista, Calif., in the summer of 2009 and Colorado Springs in the spring of 2019 to work as a Sports Medicine volunteer.  He also has had the opportunity to make two mission trips to Guatemala to provide athletic training services and education with Athletes in Action. 
 
Detweiler joined the staff at SWOSU in 2010 after working as the Head Athletic Trainer at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina since 2004. During his time at North Greenville, Detweiler was involved in the growth of the sports medicine department by implementing a partnership between the University and Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas to provide better medical support for the Crusaders student-athletes. He also served as a Clinical Faculty member for the Steadman Hawkins Primary Care and Orthopedic Sport Medicine Fellowship program and the Proaxis Physical Therapy Sports Medicine Residency Program.
 
After earning his degree to be a Physical Therapy Assistant from SWOSU in 1995, Detweiler and his wife Melissa (Slagell) moved to South Carolina where he worked as a PTA in several different setting, ranging from hospitals to home health to outpatient clinics. He returned to school and earned his bachelors degree of Health Science from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1999 and began graduate work at Furman University, where he earned his masters of Health and Exercise Science in 2002.
 
Detweiler and his wife, Melissa, live north of Hydro and have four children, Hannah, Cadon, Jacob, and John.