Andy Wheeler enters his seventh year with the Rangers in 2025-26. He serves as the Senior Deputy Director of Athletics for Finance & Administration, after previously serving as the Deputy Director of Athletics for Performance and Finance, Head Athletic Trainer and the Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine. Wheeler began his duties in June 2016.
Wheeler joined the Rangers after a very successful career at Kenyon College as the head athletic trainer. He started at Kenyon College in 2007 as an assistant athletic trainer and took over the head athletic trainer role in 2010. While at Kenyon, he served as the primary athletic trainer for the men's soccer, men's lacrosse, and men's and women's tennis teams.
In addition to his athletic training duties at Kenyon, Wheeler provided supervision of many other services offered to the entire student body in the training room. He is certified as a CPR/AED and First Aid instructor with the American Heart Association, and shares a wealth of teaching experience with a strong desire for more.
Wheeler instructed a Sports Medicine and Wellness course and co-taught Anatomy and Physiology for Sports Science at Kenyon, while also providing guest lectures for the athletic training student program at The Ohio State University.
Prior to his tenure at Kenyon, Wheeler spent two years at North Carolina State University as a graduate assistant athletic trainer, working predominantly with the wrestling team and assisting with the men’s soccer team. He earned his Masters of Education degree with an emphasis in health professions from NC State in 2007.
In 2005, Wheeler graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in athletic training. Throughout his time at Ohio State he worked with various teams including football, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s soccer, men’s basketball, and wrestling.
Wheeler is certified as a Sportsmetrics Instructor. Sportsmetrics is proven to reduce the incidence of non-contact ACL injuries. As a certified Sportsmetrics instructor, Wheeler is able to use Sportsmetrics as part of the rehabilitation process, while coordinating injury prevention and conditioning programs throughout the season for various teams.
