Monroe Abram serves as the head athletic trainer at Tennessee State, joining the athletic program in 1999. He is responsible for the overall care and treatment of the program’s student-athletes.

Abram came to TSU from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he was the head athletic trainer. He served in the same capacity at Savannah State from 1995 to 1997. He worked in sports medicine clinics prior to joining the collegiate athletic ranks.

He gained additional experience as a member of the 1996 Olympics Athletic Training staff. He also has served as an intern at the U.S.A. Olympic Training Site in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Abram is the chairman of the Ethnic Diversity Committee of the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association and a member of the Ethnic Diversity Committee of the National Athletic Trainers' Association. He also is an examiner for the National Athletic Trainers Examination. He was honored as Tennessee Collegiate Trainer of the Year in 2006. In 2007, he was named to serve as the Athletic Trainer representative on the Tennessee Board of Athletic Trainers.

A native of Macon, Ga., he graduated from Georgia in 1986 with a degree in health and physical education. He received his master’s degree two years later at Springfield (Mass.) College in sports medicine.

Monroe and his wife, Kim, are the parents of four children, Maya, Arianna, Jamison, and Ella.