Staff Directory
- Title:
- Senior Associate Athletics Director of Sports Medicine & Sports Performance
- Email:
- Phone:
- (865) 974-9098
Senior Associate Athletics Director of Sports Medicine & Sports Performance Jason McVeigh enters his 27th season working with Tennessee Athletics in 2025-26.
McVeigh has been a member of the UT Sports Medicine staff since 1999, when he was hired by Mike Rollo to join the Vols as the Director of Rehabilitation for men's athletics. He was promoted to the Director of Sports Medicine for men's athletics and Football Head Athletic Trainer in 2006, and then was named the Director of Sports Medicine for the combined men's and women's sports medicine department in 2012, while continuing his duties as Football Head Athletic Trainer.
He currently serves as Tennessee Athletics’ NCAA Athletics Health Care Administrator designee, and provides oversight of all sports medicine personnel as well as the Mental Health and Wellness, Sports Performance, Sports Science and Sports Nutrition staffs. He also serves as a member of Athletic Director Danny White's AD Cabinet, Executive Staff and the Medical Review Committee.
During the development of Tennessee Athletics' comprehensive five-year strategic plan, Rise Glorious—which was published in July of 2022—McVeigh served on the Student-Athlete Success Committee.
McVeigh graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tennessee with a B.S. degree in Biology and a minor in Biochemistry. He then went on to receive his Master’s degree in Physical Therapy from Duke University. He is a Certified Athletic Trainer as well as a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Physical Therapy, and is an active member of both the American Physical Therapy Association and the National Athletic Trainers Association. He recently served a two-year term as the President of the SEC Sports Medicine Committee from 2019-2021, after completing two years as Vice President from 2017-19. In 2022 he was named the winner of the SEC Sports Medicine Committee's Chris Patrick Award, an award voted on my his peers given annually to an SEC sports medicine professional for their "loyalty, passion and caring nature, along with extraordinary work ethic".
McVeigh has been an invited speaker at both local and national sports medicine conferences including four years at Dr. James Andrews' Injuries in Football conference, on topics such as exercises for the shoulder joint, brachial plexus injuries and meniscus pathology in football players.
He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children: Caitlin, Carson and Kennedy.
*Updated: July 2025
