Dale Mildenberger is entering his 34th year as the Head Athletic Trainer at Utah State University. As a Senior Associate Athletics Director he is responsible for the health of all of USU's student-athletes, while also overseeing the strength and conditioning program, the equipment area and teaching and supervising the graduate athletic training program.

Mildenberger has received numerous awards, including being inducted into the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 1994, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 1998 and being named to the inaugural Utah Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 2003. In addition he was named the 2004 Utah Athletic Trainer of the Year.

Prior to coming to Utah State, Mildenberger was an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Arizona (1974-75), assistant athletic trainer at the United States Military Academy (1969-72) and the head athletic trainer of the Harlem Globetrotters (1969, 1973).

A 1973 graduate of Colorado State, he earned a master's degree from Arizona in 1975. Mildenberger was born May 6, 1949 in Greeley, Colo. He is married to Kathy and has four grown children, Kip, Robyn, Kory and Lani.