2012 Media Guide - MLB.com - Colorado Rockies

Rockies Medical Staff
Brian Jordan
Strength Coach
Jordan, 36, will begin his 13th season with the Rockies, his fourth as the
Major League Strength Coach. Jordan was hired as the organization’s Minor
League strength coordinator in December 1999, and served in that position for
nine seasons (2000-08). Prior to joining the Rockies, he worked in the Tigers
organization as a strength coach for the Toledo Mudhens (1999).
Jordan also spent time as a strength coach at the United States Naval
Academy and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1998).
A native of Birch Harbor, ME, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Exercise
Science at Springfield College in Massachusetts. He played baseball all four years while attending
Springfield...he and his wife, Kim, reside in Littleton, CO with their sons, Brody and Aidan.
Keith Dugger
Head Athletic Trainer
Keith Dugger enters his eighth season as Head Athletic Trainer after being
named to the post on November 18, 2004. “Doogie”, who spent six seasons as the
club’s top assistant, is the third head trainer in franchise history.
The 2012 season will be Dugger’s 20th with the Rockies organization and
22nd overall in pro baseball. In 2003, he and Tom Probst were named Major
League Training Staff of the Year by their peers. Doogie was named the National
League’s All-Star Game trainer for the 2010 game in Anaheim.
The 46-year-old spent six seasons working in the Rockies’ Minor League system
before being promoted to assistant trainer on November 1, 1998. He joined Colorado after three years
(1990-92) as a trainer in the Padres chain. Dugger has also worked in both the Arizona Fall League and
Hawaiian Winter League.
Keith and his wife, Shannon, reside in Littleton, CO with their daughter, Tianna (12), and son, Cashel
(6). He has a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State (‘88) and is a member of the Professional Baseball
Athletic Trainers Society.
Scott Gehret
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Scott Gehret begins his eighth season as Colorado’s top assistant in the
Major League training room after being named to that position on November 18,
2004. This marks his 16th overall season with the organization.
Gehret, 40, spent five years with Colorado, from 2000-04, as the club’s
rehabilitation coordinator, working with injured players at both the Major and
Minor League level. He was hired by the Rockies in a full-time capacity in 1998,
serving as Single-A Portland’s trainer. He also worked in a part-time role with
the Rockies in 1995 before going to graduate school.
A graduate of Colorado State University in 1993, he went on to get his M.S. in physical therapy from
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia (‘97).
The Englewood, CO, native attended Cherry Creek High School. He is single and resides in Denver.
Dr. Thomas J. Noonan
Medical Director
Dr. Thomas J. Noonan was named the Colorado Rockies’ Medical Director
on September 24, 2004, succeeding Dr. Richard Hawkins.
A physician with the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Denver, Dr. Noonan has
been with the Rockies medical team since 2002 as an associate orthopedist.
Prior to coming to Colorado, Noonan spent two years as an orthopedic surgeon
with Charlotte Orthopedic Specialists. He moved to Charlotte after he gained
his fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail.
Dr. Noonan received his undergraduate degree at Princeton, where he
played football. He earned his Medical Degree and completed his residency at Duke University. He graduated
from C.E. Jordan High School in Durham, N.C., in 1984 where he was all-conference in football.
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