Mark Lahr was too short and too slow to be on his high school basketball team at Lafayette Jeff High School in Lafayette IN. It was just the right combination to start a long and exceptional career as an athletic trainer. With a few detours on along the way Mark found his way to Jim Dickerson and the Ball State AT program. Mark graduated from Ball State in 1984 with a math teaching degree and a desire to work at the secondary school level as an athletic trainer. He got the opportunity to teach math and be an athletic trainer at Ben Davis HS, in Indianapolis, IN that same year and the rest is history they like to say... He was a part of numerus state championships, started one of the first sports medicine curriculums at the secondary school level in Indiana, and was a leader among secondary school AT's in the Indianapolis area. He got to see first hand the development of the accelerated ACL rehab protocol and participated in the research of it as an athletic trainer. He was also a lead athletic trainer in the Hoosier State Games and the White River Park Games. He has been a sought after speaker for High School Athletic Training workshops. He was the Indiana All Stars Athletic Trainer for Softball in 2004 and Football in 2008. He was inducted into the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association in 2009 and the Cardinal Sports Medicine Society in 2011. He is currently employed by Forte Sports Medicine as a DME coordinator. He and his wife Colleen live Indianapolis.
