Dionne Calhoun

Dionne Calhoun was named head athletic trainer in 2019 after serving as the Mavericks assistant athletic trainer for 15 seasons. Calhoun currently serves as athletic trainer for the USA Men’s Senior National Basketball Team that has qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (postponed until July 2021). He also spent four summers as the athletic trainer for the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders program in Africa and four times has worked the Pete Newell Big Man Camp (Las Vegas and Hawaii). During the summer of 2007, he served as an athletic trainer for the Senegalese Men’s National Basketball Team.

Before joining the Mavericks, Calhoun served on the San Francisco 49ers training staff for two seasons. Prior to the 49ers, he worked at South Bay Spine and Sport as an athletic trainer, designing and implementing post-operative rehab programs and assessing patients. After graduation, Calhoun was the head football trainer at Marion Catholic High School (Imperial Beach, California).

Calhoun received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, with an emphasis in athletic training, from San Diego State University in 2000. He became interested in the field of athletic training while in high school. With no athletic trainers onsite, he observed his basketball and track coaches taping and warming up athletes. This lead him to investigate who performs such services for professional and Olympic athletes. That is when Calhoun started following Gary Vitti on the sidelines while watching Lakers games.

Born in Compton, California, Calhoun graduated from Banning High (Wilmington, Califfornia) in 1995 and is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), the National Basketball Athletic Trainers’ Association (NBATA) and the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), and is licensed as an athletic trainer in the state of Texas. For the 2012-13 season, Calhoun was named David Craig Assistant Athletic Trainer of the Year. Calhoun resides in Dallas with his wife, Amy