HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A long-time servant to Hope College has picked up a national accolade for his devotion to the Orange and Blue.
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association has awarded Dr. R. Richard Ray the 2020 Eve Becker-Doyle Leader Award. It’s the highest individual career honor the group can bestow on any of its members, and it spotlights those who have been outstanding leaders and volunteers in the NATA for four decades or more. He is already in the association’s Hall of Fame, inducted in 2006 for similar service accomplishments over a 25-year span.
It’s the latest in a long line of honors for Dr. Ray, a member of the faculty at Hope for 48 years, who has served the Holland school as head athletic trainer, provost, dean for the social sciences, and chairman of the Department of Kinesiology.
Dr. Ray will be honored next June at the NATA’s national convention in Orlando.
