Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Tim Kerin came to IUP as a student in 1965 from Wilmerding, an industrial valley town east of Pittsburgh that is also the home of Chuck Klausing. The year before, Klausing had become the Indians' head football coach.
Kerin wasted no time in signing on as an athletic team’s trainer. In those days a cadre very small in number but who served with a dedication that knew no bounds, the forerunner of today’s sports medicine staff.
The approach, commitment and personality Kerin brought to his work and to all of his personal contacts on campus are well remembered by his many friends from those days.
They proved the starting point for a career that became one of the most accomplished and admired in the nation before Kerin's passing at the age of 44, victim of an aortic aneurysm.
After graduating from IUP in 1969 and while completing a master's degree there, he taught mathematics and was head athletic trainer at Penn Hills High School.
In 1972, he moved to the University of Pittsburgh, where he was invited by coach Johnny Majors a year later, Majors' first, to become head trainer for football.
After earning a second master’s degree at Pittsburgh, Kerin moved with Majors to the University of Tennessee in 1977 to become its head trainer and chief of travel arrangements.
When Tennessee built a new sports center, Kerin completely designed a state-of-the-art training facility within it. In the Knoxville area, he became an active voice in community drug education programs, serving for two years as president of the Metropolitan Drug Commission.
In 1993, Kerin was inducted, in memory, into the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame. Earlier the same year, he was honored, again in memory, as the statewide Tennessee Athletic Trainer of the Year.
A past president of the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Association and a member of the 1980 Olympic training staff, Kerin was presented the award of merit by the Southern Athletic Trainers Association a year before his sudden passing.
Kerin is survived by his mother, Rita, brother Kevin, wife Zibbie (ticket manager for the men's athletic program at Tennessee), daughters Amy Lynn, Tara, Beth and Susan and son Bo, compliance officer for athletics at Mississippi State University.