Andrew Ure enters his sixth year overall at UTEP, and his third year as UTEP’s Director of Sports Medicine, working primarily with the men’s basketball team. He strives to lead UTEP’s team of athletic trainers with an emphasis on student-athlete welfare, primarily focusing around preventative exercise and movement screening, mental health well-being, evidence based rehabilitation and nutrition. He arrived in El Paso in August of 2019 to join the Miners’ sports medicine staff as an Associate Director of Sports Medicine, was promoted to UTEP’s Head Athletic Trainer in the Spring of 2021, and again elevated to Director of Sports Medicine in June of 2022.
Ure came to UTEP after four years at Fresno State, the last of which he was promoted to Associate Director of Sports Medicine. While at Fresno State, Ure worked primarily with the men’s basketball team which won the 2016 Mountain West Conference Championship and earned invites to the 2016 NCAA Tournament and the 2017 NIT. He also worked with the men’s and women’s golf teams, and provided oversight for the women’s lacrosse team while in Fresno.
Before Fresno State, Ure worked for four years in Indiana as an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Valparaiso University with the men’s soccer team. In his first year at Valpo, the men’s soccer team won the 2011 Horizon League Championship. He also worked with the NCAA Championship participant women’s bowling team and the Crusaders’ softball team, providing medical coverage and preventative rehabilitation for his student-athletes.
Ure is a graduate of Averett University with a degree in Athletic Training, where he mastered the intricacies of functional movement under mentors Gray Cook and Lee Burton, the founders of the Functional Movement Screen. He also split time playing basketball and soccer while attending Averett. Ure then went to Fresno State for his Masters’ degree in Sports Psychology. He holds multiple certifications, including Functional Movement Specialist (FMS), Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES), Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) and is certified nationally in Athletic Training while also being state licensed.
Ure enjoys the Sun City with his wife, Sarah, his son, Brayden, and their dog and two cats.
