John Houston

John Houston

Player Profile

Position:
Associate Athletics Trainer

Birthdate:
11/08/1967

Experience:
11th year at Houston

Alma Mater:
Texas Tech, 1991

John Houston enters his 11th season as the associate athletics trainer at the University of Houston. He overseas all post-operative rehabilitation, and his primary team coverage is with men's basketball in which he coordinates team travel. Houston also assists in sports medicine coverage with all other sports teams.

Houston returned to the State of Texas after serving three years as the assistant trainer at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va. While at Marshall, Houston was the primary trainer for the men's basketball team and assisted with all other sports teams.

A native of Fritch, Texas, Houston graduated from Sandford-Fritch High School in 1986 and earned his undergraduate degree at Texas Tech University in 1991. Houston received his master's degree from the University of Kentucky in 1994, where he was a graduate assistant trainer. He went to Marshall after serving as the head trainer at Georgetown College in Kentucky.

Houston is married to the former Amie Winn of Lexington, Ky., and they have one son, Trey.