Baylor

Josh Barnhill is in his fourth season at Baylor after joining the staff in 2021. He works directly as the head athletic trainer for Baylor baseball. 
 
Barnhill oversees all medical care for Baylor’s baseball student-athletes, working with the entire athletic medicine team. He has developed and implemented emergency active plans for Baylor’s baseball facilities, implemented COVID-19 testing protocols in the program and collaborates with BU’s team physicians on all needs in the to provide injury prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation for student athletes in the baseball program.  program. In addition, Barnhill oversees graduate students working with the baseball progr
 
He joined the Baylor staff after seasons as an athletic training intern with the Carolina Panthers from July of 2020 to Feb. of 2021, a key time as the NFL worked to return to play through the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
Barnhill earned his graduate degree in exercise and sports science at North Carolina in 2020, where he served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer, working with the baseball and cross country programs from 2018-2020. 
 
He also gained experience at Campbell University, working as the interim athletic trainer for the nationally prominent baseball program and as an intern working with football. 
 
Barnhill also worked in the summers of 2015 and 2016 as an athletic training intern with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
 
Barnhill has worked for three consecutive years as a contracted athletic trainer for the MLB Draft Combine. He is extremely active in his community, participating with SCORE International on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, volunteering with volunteering with various programs offered by Mission Waco and serving as a student mentor at Mendez Elementary. An Eagle Scout in his youth, he was the president of the Texas State University Athletic Training Sports Medicine Club during his undergraduate time.
 
He earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Texas State in 2017. His master’s thesis at UNC was on the effects of acute to chronic workload ration on landing mechanics, range of motion, and soreness in female collegiate soccer and field-hockey athletes.