Hall of Fame
Davis “Sandy” Sandlin served as the Head Athletic Trainer at UC/UTC from 1938 to 1974. He was at Chattanooga for all of those years except a brief interlude in 1944-45 when the University did not field a football team due to World War II. He spent those two years as the trainer at Georgia Tech.
A native of Huntsville, Ala., Sandlin was one of the most respected in his profession. Described as a ‘Humanitarian,’ Sandlin was noted as always worried about the welfare of others before his own.
In 1973 Sandy was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, at a time few non-athletes were chosen. He received the NATA 25 Year Award in 1974 and was inducted posthumously into the NATA Hall of Fame in1987. In 1994, Sandy was inducted into the Tennessee Athletic Trainers’ Society Hall of Fame which further honored him with the establishment of the annual Sandy Sandlin High School Athletic Trainer of the Year Award.
