East Tennessee State University

Jay Shoop served ETSU as head athletic trainer from 1965 to 1970. Shoop formally served as head athletic trainer for the Detroit Lions and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as formally serving as associate athletic director and head trainer at Georgia Tech. He served on the Atlanta Olympic Games Committee and wrote and published The History of the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association, in 1988. Shoop became a member of the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.