DePauw University

Rex Call came to DePauw in 1980 for the first of two stints in Greencastle as the only athletic trainer for all of DePauw’s teams. He retired in 2016 as the director of sports medicine, and as a faculty member with rank of associate professor. In 30 years, Call oversaw athletic health care for thousands of DePauw student-athletes. Through his work and dedication, he significantly expanded the athletic trainer and team physician care provided to DePauw teams. Call also taught and mentored countless students in both the classroom and in the athletic training room. Many of his students went on to careers in health professions and in sports medicine-related areas.

Call earned his bachelor’s degree in 1979 from Ball State University and his Master of Science degree in physical education with specialization in athletic training from the University of Arizona in 1980. He spent three years at DePauw and then moved to the University of Pittsburgh, where he was an assistant athletic trainer and clinical instructor for three years and head athletic trainer for a year. He spent two years as an athletic trainer for The Physical Therapy Group in Greensburg, Pa., and worked on the Buffalo Bills’ athletic training staff at the team’s pre-season training camps in 1982 and 1983. Call returned to DePauw in 1989 and, in 2002, the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association named him the College Athletic Trainer of the Year. In 2016 the organization presented him with the President’s Excellence Award. Call was inducted into the Ball State Cardinal Sports Medicine Society Ring of Honor in 2014. Call was a member of Main Street Greencastle and served on its board. He also was a member of the Heritage Preservation Society and served on the initial Heritage Wall Committee, which established the Heritage Wall, which bears plaques about important events in Greencastle’s history.

Call and his wife, Carol, reside in the Greencastle area and have three married children and nine grandchildren.