After getting cut from his HS basketball team for being to slow and too small Jay Bradley embarked on a career path that has kept him busy throughout the Midwest for over 50 years. After taking a Cramer Student Athletic Trainer correspondence course in high school he was asked to be his high school's athletic trainer. He was the student athletic trainer for the 1967 Indiana Boys All Start basketball team and the student athletic trainer for the 1967 Indiana North All Stars Football team in their game vs the South All Stars with a student athletic trainer named Glen Snow. This started his path to Ball State, University of Cincinnati, and finally IUPUI. He was instrumental in the creation of the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association and a long time director of Nike Basketball camps across the United States. He is a member of four Hall of Fames, Pike HS Alumni Hall of Fame, Indiana Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame, Cardinal Sports Medicine Society Ring of Honor, IUPUI Athletics Hall of Fame
