WSSU Director of Sports Medicine/Head Athletic Trainer Darrell Turner is entering into his fourth year as the head of the WSSU Sports Medicine Department in 2009-10 where he continues to make sweeping changes in the injury prevention and rehabilitation of WSSU's over 300 student-athletes. A native of Clermont, Fla., Turner is a 2002 graduate of the University of Florida where he received a B.S. in exercise and sport science, specializing in athletic training as well as serving as a student athletic trainer for the Gators nationally-ranked football program.

Following his graduation from UF in 2002, he completed a summer internship with the Atlanta Falcons Football Club of the National Football League (NFL). Following the completion of his internship Turner accepted a position as the Head Athletic Trainer at South Sumter High School in Bushnell, Fla. After a year at South Sumter High, Turner matriculated to the University of Arkansas where he earned a M.Ed. in recreation with a concentration in sports management in 2005.While at the University of Arkansas Turner served as an athletic trainer with the Razorback football and tennis teams.

Following his post-graduate work, Turner worked as the seasonal intern for the Carolina Panthers Football Club of the National Football League (NFL). He then moved on as the Interim Athletic Trainer for Winthrop University before assuming the Head Athletic Trainer/Director of Sports Medicine position for the Rams at Winston-Salem State University. Turner, and his wife of four years, Megan reside in Winston-Salem, N.C.