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TIGERS FRONT OFFICE
KEVIN
RAND
DIRECTOR, MEDICAL SERVICES/
HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER
Enters his 32nd season in professional baseball, 21st at the major league level and 11th with the club after being
named to his current position on October 15, 2002.
• Directs the efforts of the organization’s major and minor league medical and conditioning personnel.
• Joined Tigers Assistant Athletic Trainers Steve Carter and Doug Teter in being named the Athletic Training Staff
of the Year in 2006 by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer’s Society (PBATS).
• Served as the head athletic trainer for the American League All-Star team during the 2005 All-Star Game at
Comerica Park on July 12, 2005.
• Spent the 2002 season as the assistant athletic trainer for the Montreal Expos after spending the previous nine
seasons in the same position with the Florida Marlins.
• Prior to joining the Marlins on November 20, 1992, he spent 11 years in the New York Yankees organization,
including the last four (1989-92) as the minor league head athletic trainer/rehabilitation supervisor.
• Served as head athletic trainer with Triple A Columbus from 1986-88 after being promoted from his previous
position as head athletic trainer at Double A Albany where he spent the 1985 season.
• Began his career serving as the head athletic trainer for the Single A Ft. Lauderdale Yankees from 1982-84.
• Inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame on July 29, 2007.
• Served as the National League’s assistant athletic trainer representative for PBATS from 1998-2001...served as
the American League head athletic trainer representative from 2004-09.
• A 1981 graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine, Rand is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers
Association (NATA) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), in addition to being an
NSCA certified personal trainer.
• Leads the annual PLAY (Promoting a Lifetime of Activity among Youth) Campaign.
• Rand and his wife, Tisa, reside in Lakeland, FL with their sons, Keegan (1/21/97), Kamden (6/24/98), Kallen
(11/10/00) and Kashton (2/12/03).
STEVE
CARTER
ASSISTANT
ATHLETIC TRAINER
Enters his 19th season as the club’s assistant athletic trainer and his 25th as a trainer in the Tigers organization.
• Joined the big league club in his current position prior to the 1995 season.
• Joined Tigers Head Athletic Trainer Kevin Rand and Assistant Athletic Trainer Doug Teter in being named the
Athletic Training Staff of the Year in 2006 by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer’s Society (PBATS).
• Served as the assistant athletic trainer for the American League All-Star team during the 2005 All-Star Game
at Comerica Park on July 12, 2005.
• Served as an American League assistant trainer representative on the executive board of PBATS from 2006-10.
• Was head athletic trainer for six seasons with three Tigers affiliates, including Single A Fayetteville (1989-90),
Single A Lakeland (1991-92) and Triple A Toledo (1993-94).
• Served as athletic trainer and taught biology at Evansville Central High School in Evansville, IN from 1986-89.
• Graduated from Indiana University in 1986 with a degree in health education/athletic training...played for the
school’s rugby team.
• 53 years old...is a native of Elkhart, IN.
• Carter and his wife, Tari, reside in Washington Township, MI...they have six children, Joshua (2/2/84), Jeremy
(5/28/86), Jacob (4/17/89), Jesse (5/13/90), Delaney (10/8/90) and Sean (12/12/92).
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