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Support Staff
SUPPORT STAFF JAKE CHAPMAN
Jake Chapman is entering his ninth year as a member of the Wyoming Football staff. He accepted the additional responsibility of serving as Director of Recruiting Operations for the Wyoming Football program in the Spring of 2019. Chapman will provide technical support to the recruiting efforts of Cowboy Football, while continuing to serve as the Video Coordinator for the UW football program. Chapman originally joined the Wyoming Athletics Department in January of 2014 as video coordinator for Cowboy Football. Chapman coordinates fi lming of all practice and game footage for Wyoming Football, and supervises a group of student fi lmers. He is profi cient in utilizing XOS Thunder and DragonFly Software for editing practice footage. He posts edited video footage with the use of XOS ThunderCloud IPad software and makes that footage available to members of the Wyoming Football coaching staff and players for fi lm study. Chapman also coordinates recruiting video on potential recruits, which is utilized by the Cowboy coaching staff in all recruiting efforts. He provides video content for a variety of recruiting events during the year. Management of UW Football meeting rooms is one of Chapman’s other responsibilities. He also assists television networks when they arrive on campus by providing video footage for review by TV announce crews. Prior to Wyoming, Chapman served as the football video coordinator at North Dakota State from 2012 through 2013. His responsibilities at NDSU mirrored those he performs as video coordinator at Wyoming. In addition, Chapman helped conduct facility and campus tours and assisted with coordinating recruit visit schedules for coaches. Chapman’s fi rst video coordinator position came while he was a student at Ohio University. He served as the football video coordinator from 2009-12. In 2011, Chapman served as a ballpark operations intern at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Ariz. His initial work in minor-league baseball came as director of player operations and equipment manager for the Southern Ohio Copperheads from 2009-10. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sport management with minors in business administration and economics from Ohio U. in 2012.
DAVID KERNS
Head Football Athletic Trainer
David Kerns was hired as Head Athletic Trainer for Wyoming Football in the spring of 2019. The 2022 season will mark his fourth year at Wyoming and his 38th working as an athletic trainer at the collegiate level. Kerns will oversee all athletic training operations for Cowboy Football, including supervising a staff of full-time athletic trainers and a group of student interns who will work directly with the football team. He has been a Board of Certifi cation (BOC) certifi ed athletic trainer since 1985. Kerns will work with student-athletes to help prevent, identify, manage and rehabilitate injuries, while also collaborating with Wyoming Football team physicians to provide the best medical care for UW student-athletes. For 25 years from 1994-2018, Kerns served as head football athletic trainer at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va. In addition to serving as the head football athletic trainer at West Virginia, Kerns also was a classroom and clinical instructor for the Athletic Training Approved Curriculum Program in the WVU College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
Before joining the West Virginia Athletics Department, Kerns was an Assistant Athletic Trainer and Instructor at Ohio University for seven years from 1987’94. While his title was Assistant Athletic Trainer, he served as the Head Athletic Trainer for the Bobcat Football team.
He began at Ohio U. as a graduate assistant athletic trainer from 1985 to 1987, working with the men’s basketball team.
Kerns earned his bachelor’s degree in health and physical education with an emphasis in athletic training from Penn State in January 1984. He also received his teaching certifi cate upon his graduation. He worked as the head athletic trainer at Redland High School in Lewisberry, Pa., for the 1984-85 academic year before entering graduate school at Ohio U. in 1985. Kerns completed his master’s degree in physical education with a specialization in athletic training from Ohio in 1987.
Throughout his career, he has made numerous presentations at the state and district levels and has served on several National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) committees.
Kerns is originally from Harrisburg, Pa. His wife is Kelly Kerns.
HALEY WALSH
Cowboy Football Offi ce Manager
Haley Walsh is entering her 12th year as offi ce manager for the Wyoming Football program, having joined the athletic department in June of 2011. As one of the fi rst staff members that visitors to the Wyoming Football program meet, Walsh is an important contributor in projecting a positive image for Cowboy Football. Included in her responsibilities are: helping coordinate coaches’ travel, handling fi nancial transactions for the program, assisting in preparing materials for practice preparation, maintaining coaches’ schedules, aiding with recruiting, maintaining information on players and coaches and helping with summer camps. Walsh came to the Cowboy Football program from the University of Wyoming Foundation where she worked from October of 2009 until June 2011. While at the UW Foundation, she was an administrative assistant to the major gift offi cers. Prior to that, she worked for the City Engineer in Sheridan, Wyo. for one year, and worked at the Albany County Clerk’s Offi ce in Laramie, Wyo., from 2003-08 as an election clerk.
Walsh is a 2001 graduate of Laramie High School. In December of 2019, she completed her bachelor’s degree in general studies from the University of Wyoming. Walsh grew up on her family’s ranch west of Laramie. Her husband, J.T. Walsh, is also a Laramie native and a graduate of the University of Wyoming. He is a local realtor.
