Famed athletic trainer from Gulfport who has been head athletic trainer at Gulfport High since 1978. Ross Hails from Dunn, North Carolina, who was an All Conference baseball player at Dunn High School. He attended college at Atlantic Christian in Wilson, NC, and Campbell College at Buies Creek, NC. He was hired by MAC and Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame member Lindy Callahan as head athletic trainer for Gulfport High after serving as the senior military head athletic trainer for the U.S. Naval Academy from 1975 to 1978. Ross has served the Admirals athletic programs for over 31 years. He is a longtime acclaimed member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, the Southeastern Athletic Trainers Association, the Mississippi Athletic Trainers Association, the American Society of Orthopedic Physician Assistants, and the Emergency Medical Service of the Board of Supervisors for Harrison County. Ross received a 25-year award from the National Athletic Trainers Association in 1999 and a 30-year award from the Gulfport High School football program in 2007. He was named Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Mississippi Athletic Trainers Association in 2005 and received the Dr. Archibald Clinton Hewes Memorial Sports Medicine Award from Gulfport High School for 1982-83. Ross was selected at Outstanding Young Mississippian by the Mississippi Jaycees in 1989 & 1990 and is a longtime member of the Gulfport Gridiron Club who received the President’s Award in 2001 and the Paul Wright Membership Award in 2002. He also received the Contribution to Amateur Football Award by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame, Gulfport Chapter, in 2002. He has been a frequent clinic speaker at annual symposium sponsored by the Mississippi Athletic Trainers Association and at area schools for the past 20 years. The Ross Langston Sports Medicine Scholarship established in his name for Gulf Coast students in 1988-89 which has provided approximately 15 college scholarships.