By: Alex Kline, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
POMONA, Calif. – Former Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball student-athlete Jasen Powell (1992-95) is headed to the Paris 2024 Olympics as an athletic trainer for the United States Men's Basketball National Team.
Powell became the Head Athletic Trainer for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1999 and is the only National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association (NBATA) member to have college basketball playing experience.
The Oakland native transferred to Cal Poly Pomona ahead of the 1992-93 season, after attending both San Diego State and Merritt Community College. Over the course of the following three seasons at CPP, Powell played in 63 games - including all 26 his senior year. While playing for the Green & Gold, he averaged 3.7 points per game and 10.4 minutes per game, while shooting 42 percent from the floor and 31 percent beyond the arc.
Powell's 1994-95 senior campaign proved to be his most efficient year as a Bronco, averaging 12.5 minutes per game, 5.6 points per game, 1.2 rebounds per game, and scoring 145 total points – all career-highs.
Powell graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 1995 with an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology and Health Promotion. He wasted no time entering the athletic training field, spending the 1994-95 season as an Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Los Angeles Clippers. He also worked as an assistant athletic trainer for the Atlanta Falcons in 1995, and the San Francisco 49ers from 1996-99. Just weeks before the 1999-00 NBA season started, he accepted the Head Athletic Trainer position with the Los Angeles Clippers - a position he still holds to this day.
The former Bronco will now tend to NBA legends such as LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Kevin Durant in the upcoming Olympic Games, with the United States first set to face Serbia on July 28th.
— NBATA (@NBATA) July 15, 2024
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