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Dr. Tyler Lesher
- Title:
- Associate Athletic Trainer
M. Basketball, M. Golf
- Alma Mater:
- New Mexico State, '14
Tyler Lesher enters his fourth season as the UCLA menโs basketball teamโs athletic trainer in 2024-25.
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In his current role, Lesher handles all day-to-day athletic training responsibilities with UCLA menโs basketball and oversees multiple sports medicine interns. He joined the UCLA athletic training and sports medicine department in October 2021 and also assists the menโs golf team.
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Lesherโs work with the menโs basketball program has been vital over the past three years. Most notably, the Bruins made back-to-back trips to the NCAA Tournamentโs Sweet 16 in his first two seasons. In 2022-23, UCLA went 31-6 overall and won the Pac-12 Conferenceโs regular-season crown. In 2021-22, the Bruins went 27-8 overall and finished in second place in the Pac-12 standings.
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Lesher, who hails from Wyoming, spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant athletic trainer at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to his time at FAU, he spent four years working in the NBA and the NBAโs G League.
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Lesher served as the head athletic trainer/strength and conditioning specialist for the Greensboro Swarm, the Charlotte Hornetsโ NBA G League affiliate from August 2017 until November 2020. His first opportunity in the NBA took place with the Cleveland Cavaliers. While in Cleveland (Sept. 2016 until May 2017), Lesher served as an intern athletic trainer. He was the head strength and conditioning/assistant athletic trainer for the Canton Charge, the Cavsโ NBA G League affiliate.
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After he earned his bachelorโs degree in athletic training from New Mexico State University in 2014, Lesher worked as a menโs basketball graduate assistant athletic trainer for Chico State. He earned his masterโs degree in kinesiology at Chico State while on the job from 2014 to 2015.
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Lesher, 35, is a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Certified Orthopedic Physician Extender (OPE-C), Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) and Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES). He earned his Doctorate in Health Science and Exercise Leadership from California University of Pennsylvania, focusing reducing systemic inflammation through nutrition and exercise, in the fall of 2021.
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In his current role, Lesher handles all day-to-day athletic training responsibilities with UCLA menโs basketball and oversees multiple sports medicine interns. He joined the UCLA athletic training and sports medicine department in October 2021 and also assists the menโs golf team.
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Lesherโs work with the menโs basketball program has been vital over the past three years. Most notably, the Bruins made back-to-back trips to the NCAA Tournamentโs Sweet 16 in his first two seasons. In 2022-23, UCLA went 31-6 overall and won the Pac-12 Conferenceโs regular-season crown. In 2021-22, the Bruins went 27-8 overall and finished in second place in the Pac-12 standings.
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Lesher, who hails from Wyoming, spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant athletic trainer at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to his time at FAU, he spent four years working in the NBA and the NBAโs G League.
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Lesher served as the head athletic trainer/strength and conditioning specialist for the Greensboro Swarm, the Charlotte Hornetsโ NBA G League affiliate from August 2017 until November 2020. His first opportunity in the NBA took place with the Cleveland Cavaliers. While in Cleveland (Sept. 2016 until May 2017), Lesher served as an intern athletic trainer. He was the head strength and conditioning/assistant athletic trainer for the Canton Charge, the Cavsโ NBA G League affiliate.
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After he earned his bachelorโs degree in athletic training from New Mexico State University in 2014, Lesher worked as a menโs basketball graduate assistant athletic trainer for Chico State. He earned his masterโs degree in kinesiology at Chico State while on the job from 2014 to 2015.
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Lesher, 35, is a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Certified Orthopedic Physician Extender (OPE-C), Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) and Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES). He earned his Doctorate in Health Science and Exercise Leadership from California University of Pennsylvania, focusing reducing systemic inflammation through nutrition and exercise, in the fall of 2021.
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