About the Board

James Lee Romo

Chairman

Jamie Reed

Co-Chairman

HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER/MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR TEXAS RANGERS
Jamie Reed, 46, is entering his third season as head athletic trainer for the Texas Rangers. From 1997 to 2002, Reed was head athletic trainer for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He also was the assistant athletic trainer for the Baltimore Orioles from 1989 to 1996. While at the Orioles, Reed shared “Major League Baseball Athletic Training Staff of the Year” honors in 1996 with Richie Bancells. Prior to his Major League appointment in 1989, Reed spent seven seasons in the Orioles’ Minor League system with teams in Bluefield (Rookie League), Hagerstown (Class A), Charlotte (Class AA) and Rochester (Class AAA). Reed is a former American League assistant athletic trainer representative on the PBATS Executive Committee. In addition to speaking at MLB’s 1999 Rookie Development Program, he lectured on the role of the Minor League athletic trainer at the 1997 NATA Clinical Symposium in Salt Lake City. In December 2003 Reed traveled to Japan to address the Japanese Professional Baseball Athletics Trainers Society (JPBATS). Anative of Annapolis, Md., Reed served as athletic trainer for the U.S. Naval Academy’s football and basketball teams from 1982 to 1984, and again in 1988. During the 2000 season, he was selected as the trainer for the American League team in the All-Star Game. In December 2001, he was selected by his peers as the new president of PBATS, and was re-elected to the position in 2003. Reed lives in Grand Prairie, Texas ,with his wife Jean and their children, Zach, Becky, and Rachel.