Brian Lund is in his first season with the Knights, after joining the program in June of 2024 as associate athletics director for sports medicine and the head football athletic trainer.
Lund comes to UCF from the University of Southern California where he spent the 2023-24 academic year as the head athletic trainer for the football program. During his time in Los Angeles, he coordinated all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the sports medicine program. He worked closely with team physicians to help facilitate medical care for each football student-athlete.
Prior to his time at USC, Lund spent 11 years at the University of Wisconsin (2012-23) in Madison, Wis. After serving as an assistant football athletic trainer from 2012-16, Lund was then promoted to head football trainer from 2016-23. During his tenure in Madison, he supervised several full-time and student staffers and worked alongside team physicians to provide the best possible care for each football student-athlete. He also coordinated the day-to-day operations of the sports medicine program and served as the coordinator of long-term rehabilitation for the football program.
Before heading to Madison, Lund spent the 2004-12 seasons at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. While at IU, he served as an assistant football athletic trainer from 2004-07 before being promoted to Indiana’s head football athletic trainer from 2007-12. Lund coordinated all day-to-day operations of sports medicine efforts for Indiana football, oversaw the football athletic training budget and was responsible for purchasing supplies. He also implemented the Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS) for use in monitoring head impacts and coordinated all therapeutic exercise for football.
After spending 1997 and 1998 as an athletic training intern for the New Orleans Saints and a year as an athletic trainer at Brown County High School in Nashville (1998), Lund got his start in college athletics as a graduate assistant at Indiana in 1999. He then moved to Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, where he spent five years. After a year as an assistant athletic trainer (1999-2000), Lund served as the department’s head athletic trainer from 2000-04. He oversaw all athletic training coverage for 21 intercollegiate athletic teams and was primarily responsible for coverage for football, men’s basketball, track and field and men’s tennis.
Lund also spent eight semesters as an adjunct professor in the exercise science department at Buena Vista University. His classes included Fundamentals of Athletic Training, First Aid and Safety, Lower Extremity Injury Evaluation, Senior Seminar in Athletic Training, and Therapeutic Exercise and Reconditioning.
A member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and College Athletic Trainers Society, he is also certified in CPR-Ame4rican Heart Association, CPR for the Professional Rescuer-American Red Cross, First Aid-American Red Cross, Integrative Dry Needling, Owens Blood Flow Restriction, Functional Movement Screen (FMS) level 1, and Graston Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Immobilization.
Lund earned his bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science-athletic training from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1998. He later received a master’s degree in kinesiology-athletic training specialization from Indiana University in 1999.