Northwestern State University of Louisana

Now in his 17th season at Northwestern State, Jason Drury was promoted to director of sports medicine in 2012 after the retirement of long-time athletic trainer Ed Evans. Drury joined the sports medicine staff at Northwestern State University in the summer of 2005 after being the head athletic trainer at Natchitoches Central for five years. 

He guided the 14-sport athletics department through the COVID-19 pandemic, which included developing and implementing testing and quarantine protocols aligned with regional and national standards.

Drury was instrumental in developing Northwestern State's partnership with Natchitoches Regional Medical Center, which doubled NSU's full-time sports medicine staff in 2015.

In the spring of 2009, Drury took over as the head football athletic trainer for the Demons, after working for three seasons with the women’s soccer team and one season with men’s basketball team. 

A 1999 graduate of Idaho State University in biology, Drury worked with numerous sports in Pocatello, Idaho, including football, men’s basketball and track and field.  Drury earned his master’s degree in sports administration from Northwestern State in 2001, during which time he worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the NSU softball team.  

Drury is a native of Paoli, Indiana. He and his wife, Toni, have been married for 18 years. They have two children, Maddox and Kenzie.