Dr. Phil Vardiman is an Associate Professor at Kansas State University School of Health Sciences in the College of Health and Human Sciences. Outside of teaching Dr. Vardiman continues his clinical engagement as the Team Lead Athletic Trainer Spotter for the National Football League at Arrowhead Stadium and is a Football Medical Observer for the Big XII Conference in Lawrence, Kansas and he coordinates the Sports Medicine services for the K-State Rodeo. 

Dr. Vardiman also volunteers as a sports medicine support team member for the 1st Infantry Division’s Best Ranger, 10-miler and Best SAPPER competition teams. Vardiman has served as sports medicine staff for USA Track and Field, serving on multiple world championship teams, the 2016 Olympic Team in Rio and the Director of Sports Medicine for USA Track and Field at the Pan American Games in 2019 in Lima, Peru. 

Vardiman is currently the Past-President for the Kansas Athletic Trainers’ Society and serves on the NATA’s Executive Council for Education. His research focus is the human response to exercise and therapeutic clinical interventions on muscle quality and physical performance measures. Most recently adding 3D motion capture analysis to his research expertise. 

He enjoys spending his free time with his family, wife Bethany, and his daughters Rylie and Hailey.