University of Tennessee Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Director of Football Sports Medicine
- Email:
- Phone:
- (865) 974-1359
Herb Reinhard joined the University of Tennessee Sports Medicine staff in February 2025 as Senior Associate Director of Sports Medicine/Football Head Athletic Trainer.
Reinhard comes to Knoxville following a two-year stint as the Head Football Athletic Trainer at Wake Forest University.
He joined the Demon Deacons following two years as the Assistant Athletics Director for Medical Services at East Carolina University. In addition to serving as the Pirates’ top football athletic trainer, he was responsible for the daily oversight of ECU’s entire sports medicine division, including its facilities and staff members.
His arrival at East Carolina ended a four-season tenure at Ole Miss where he worked exclusively with the Rebels’ football program as an assistant athletic trainer before earning a promotion to senior athletic trainer status in January 2021.
Before accepting the position with the Southeastern Conference member in 2017, Reinhard spent two years as an assistant (football) athletic trainer at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Reinhard followed a two-year assignment as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Troy (AL) University by completing a 10-month internship with the then-Washington Redskins of the National Football League, which included detailed home and road game-day experience during the 2014 campaign.
A 2012 graduate of Valdosta State (GA) University, Reinhard earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training before adding a master’s degree in sport and fitness management from Troy in 2014.
Reinhard is a certified athletic trainer by the Board of Certification and a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. He holds an additional certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a corrective exercise specialist (CES) and is also certified in dry needling for pain management and sports rehabilitation.
The Valdosta native is married to the former Deanna Varnadoe and they are the parents of two daughters – Adalyn and Lyndi.
*Updated: April 2025
