Major League Athletic Trainers

Chicago Cubs

Mark O’Neal
Position: Head Athletic Trainer
College Attended: University of Arkansas(B..S.)
Years in MLB: 10
Mark O’Neal — Director, Athletic Training Mark joined the club in 2004 as head athletic trainer and was promoted to his current role in October of 2007 … spent the previous 15 seasons in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization. © Joined the Cardinals major league staff in 1998 as the medical and rehabilitation coordinator and was promoted to assistant athletic trainer in 2003. *Oversaw the rehabilitation of all injured players with the big league club. *En route to the majors, he made stops in the Cardinals’ farm system at Savannah (A), Arkansas (AA) and Louisville (AAA). *Also worked as a trainer at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and in the Arizona Fall League. © Is a Certified Member of NATA, a licensed athletic trainer in the states of Illinois, Arizona and Missouri, a member of the Missouri Board of Healing Arts and a member of the NSCA. © Joined Assistant Athletic Trainer Ed Halbur in being named the 2008 Major League Athletic Training Staff of the Year at the annual Baseball Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, Nev. © At the 2007 Winter Meetings, was elected to the position of Secretary on the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer’s Society’s Executive Board. © Was a keynote speaker on the Kinetic Chain Assessment at the 2003 NATA National Convention and a speaker at the Annual Medical and Legal Controversies in Sports Conference at Northwestern University. © He lectures several times a year on the trends of adolescent injuries in baseball to youth baseball administrators and coaches ... attends various continuing education venues during the offseason. © A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he worked for the football and basketball teams while an undergraduate and graduate assistant. © Mark and his wife, Stefanie, reside in Chicago, Ill., during the offseason with their three children (Conner, Cade and Kyle).

Ed Halbur
Position: Assistant Athletic Trainer
College Attended: U of Nevada, Las Vegas, U. of Nebraska, Omaha(B.S.), (M.A.)
Years in MLB: 6
Ed Halbur, 37, will be in his sixth season in the Major Leagues. Ed was the Head Athletic Trainer for AAA Iowa (2003-2004). Prior to that, he was the Head Athletic Trainer for AA Erie (2001-2002) and Oneonta (1999-2000) in the Detroit Tigers Minor League System. In 2001 he served as the athletic trainer for the Escohido Leones in the Dominican Winter League. Halbur, a graduate of UNLV, also spent two and a half years as a Graduate Assistant at Creighton University covering baseball and men’s soccer. While at Creighton he served as a host athletic trainer for the College World Series. Halbur is a Certified Member of the National Athletic Trainers Association. Ed, his wife Sara, and daughter Addison currently reside in Des Moines, IA.