Staff Directory
- Title:
- Senior Associate Athletics Director, Health, Performance & Wellness
- Alma Mater:
- San Diego State, '96
in 2022, Mark Pocinichย began his role as Associate Athletic Director forย Health, Performance and Wellness. For the previous 11 years he served as UCLAโs Assistant Athletic Director, Sports Medicine.ย
Pocinich overseas four support areas that include Sports Medicine, Mental Health, Athletic Performance and Performance Nutrition. He works with the directors of each of these areas to provide administrative support, policy development, budget oversight, staff development and assessing the services that impact UCLA student-athletes health, performance and wellness.ย
Prior to UCLA,ย Mark was the Head Athletic Trainer at Long Beach State University from 2007-2012 where he provided oversight of their sports medicine program serving 18 sports. Prior to his stint at Long Beach State, Mark spent 7 years at USC and 2 at Eastern Washington University as an Assistant Athletic Trainer. As a certified athletic trainer with 26 years of experience at the division 1 level he is an active member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, California Athletic Trainers Association and Pac-12 Student-Athlete Health & Well-Being Initiative.
A native of Southern California, Pocinich grew up in Fullerton and received his Bachelors of Science in 1996 from San Diego State University and earned his Masters in Sports Medicine from the University of Oregon in 1998. He and his wife, Shelly, have two children, Ryan and Lauren, and currently reside in Long Beach, California
