Mark O’Neal

Mark joined the Chicago Cubs in 2004 as Head Athletic Trainer and was promoted to his present role as Director of Medical Administration’s in October of 2012. Having spent his previous 15 seasons in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization, Mark joined the Cardinals major league staff in 1998 as the medical and rehabilitation coordinator and was promoted to assistant athletic trainer in 2003. En route to the major leagues, Mark made stops in the Cardinals’ farm system at Savannah (A), Arkansas (AA) and Louisville (AAA). He 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. Mark had the honor of working the 2009 All-Star game in St. Louis. In 2008 Mark joined Cubs’ Assistant Athletic Trainer Ed Halbur in being named the 2008 Major League Athletic Training Staff of the Year, and in 2007 Mark was elected Secretary of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer’s Society’s Executive Board. In December of 2013, Mark was unanimously elected by its membership to be President of PBATS. In his first year in that position Mark reinvigorated tobacco education in baseball and established ProTep, the Professional Tobacco Education Program. Mark also works with MLB and USA Baseball on instructions and injury prevention programs for young people. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he worked for the football and basketball teams while an undergraduate and graduate assistant. Mark has a private pilot’s license and enjoys flying with his sons. Mark and his wife, Stefanie, reside in Chicago, Ill., during the offseason with their three children (Conner, Cade and Kyle).