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Hose, David
Head Women's Golf Coach; Sports Information Director; Assistant Athletic Director of Events

Department: Athletics - Main Campus
Contact: dhose@oak.edu
p. 812-749-1299
First Year: 2010
Bio: David Hose joined the staff of the Oakland City Athletic Department as the Sports Information Director and Assistant Athletic Director of Events in 2009 and was named Head Women's Golf Coach for the 2010-11 season.

A five year member of the Oakland City University men's golf team, Hose has been involved in OCU athletics since 2003. He graduated from OCU in 2008 with a B.A in English and a B.S. in Social Studies. Hose spent five years working in the IT department on campus before moving to the athletic department. "Coaching has been something I have felt would be a good fit for me. I have always enjoyed working with people to better themselves, both on and off the course. If I can help someone play better that is great, but if they graduate a better person and I have played a small part in that, I have succeeded."

Hose and his wife Heather are the Resident Directors of Brokaw Hall, the underclassmen girls dorm on campus..

Gabriel, A. John
Men's Athletic Trainer

Department: Athletics - Main Campus
Contact: jgabriel@oak.edu
p. 812-749-1577
Office: Johnson Center - 114
Certifications: M.A., A.T.C, L.A.T.
Bio: Mr. John Gabriel is the licensed athletic trainer at Oakland City University. He has been a certified athletic trainer since 1976. He returned to sports medicine after 11 years in hospital administration. A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa in 1975, John was the assistant trainer and a teaching assistant at UNI, finishing his Master's of Arts degree in the summer of 1977, after one year as a teacher/athletic trainer in Des Moines, Iowa. After completing an additional year of graduate school and working in a hospital and orthopedic clinic, he started a successful district-wide sports medicine program that is still in operation today in Waterloo, IA; a school district that has produced a number of outstanding college, olympic and professional athletes.

John has had a varied career in both sports medicine and healthcare. His experience includes being a teacher, athletic trainer and outreach clinical trainer at the high school and college level. He has also been the head athletic trainer and full time faculty member at colleges throughout the Midwest. From 1984-87, while a department head at a college of health sciences in Bahrain, Arabian Gulf, he started a B. S. in Sports Medicine Therapy and an EMS system for his host country that previously had no pre-hospital emergency services using experience he gained as a paramedic program director at his previous position at a community college in Iowa. While overseas, he was a frequent lecturer at national and international sports medicine conferences and lectured in rehabilitation at a medical school, while coordinating orthopedic clinical rotations for third-year residents.

John has been a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association since 1973, and has been a volunteer for AAU Junior Olympics and numerous Special Olympics including the first national Special Olympics, held at Iowa State University, NCAA Championships in wrestling, track and gymnastics and at the USOC training centers in Colorado and California. John was also a national examiner with the NATABOC for eighteen years and recently was the Iowa state representative for the NATA Council on Employment. He has also published several articles on sports medicine and been a presenter at NATA clinical meetings.

John's wife, Kay, is a BSN and is the Director of Quality Management at Gibson General Hospital in Princeton, Indiana. John's older son, Mike, recently graduated from Iowa State University, while his other son, Tony, is a nursing student in Waterloo, Iowa.