In 1975 a freshman found his way into a call out for student athletic trainers at Ball State University. Being one of the rare people to have an athletic trainer at his high school in the early 1970's he had a small understanding of what athletic trainers did. He started off with a couple of days a week of observation and then spending time with Jim Dickerson in a golf cart during the MAC cross country championship sealed the deal for Rex Call and sent him on a career path that has taken him across the country and then finally back home to DePauw University. He has learned from NATA HOF athletic trainers to teaching his own outstanding students that have impacted the health care profession due to his guidance. This 1979 Ball State graduate (BA) and 1980 University of Arizona graduate (MS) had worked in the NFL, NCAA Div. 1 level, been part of one of the very first industrial athletic training programs and started his own out-patient PT clinic providing AT outreach to local high schools. Finally ending up back where he started at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN where he started an approved BOC athletic training education curriculum and developed a clinic staff program second to none at the NCAA Div. 3 level. Rex was the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association College Athletic Trainer of the year in 2002, The Indiana Athletic Trainers Association Presidents Excellence Award winner in 2016, Inducted into the DePauw University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019, North Putnam High School Distinguished Alumni 2021, and Inducted into the Cardinal Sports Medicine Society Ring of Honor in 2014. Rex retired from DePauw in 2017 as the Director Emeritus of Sports Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology.
He and his wife Carol have 3 adult children, 9 grandchildren and reside in Greencastle, IN
