Hall of Fame
Andy Clawson arrived on The Citadel campus in the summer of 1973 as the head athletic trainer and remains the college’s first and only director of sports medicine. He has treated literally thousands of cadet-athletes, members of the Corps of Cadets, coaches, staff, and the entire Citadel community with sports-related injuries and rehabilitation, while overseeing hundreds of student trainers, many of whom have gone on to become head athletics trainers/sports medicine directors. He was enshrined in the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Hall of Fame in 2010, the Arkansas Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 2016 and honored with a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Henderson State (Ark.) in 2002. Clawson was also recognized by the state with the Fred Hoover Award in in 1998, by The Citadel with the Palmetto Award in 2009 and the Outstanding Service Award in 1992, and in 2013, was awarded lifetime membership in The Citadel Alumni Association Lifetime Membership for his continued service to the Corps of Cadets.
