About the Facility

• Opened May 18, 2009
• State-of-the-art learning, practice and working environment with 103,000 square feet of space, sitting on 20 acres of land
• Houses a 4,535 square-foot, football-shaped locker room 69 lockers included
• Four full-length fields
• 7,500 square-foot weight room
• Two-story main building houses rehabilitation pools in the training room, as well as fully-integrated video equipment in every meeting room and coach’s office

Alex McDonald
TIMEX Multisport Team Athlete

Alex McDonald, MD is a professional triathlete and graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He was born and raised in Woodstock, VT with his two brothers and watched his father compete in triathlons and marathons for many years during his youth. Attending undergraduate at Connecticut College in New London, CT Alex was active both academically and athletically as the starting goalie on the varsity water polo team and also ran recreationally. Shortly after starting medical school a friend asked him to participate in a triathlon, and the rest is history. After just three short years of racing triathlon Alex burst onto the national elite age-group scene in 2006 as the US champion, age-group champion and 5th overall finisher at Ironman Wisconsin. Followed 6 weeks later by at top 6% finish at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, HI. In 2007 Alex was Ironman USA Champion; at Lake Placid, NY as well as the amateur world champion and 29th overall at the Ironman World Championship; in Kona, HI. Alex has been a member of the Timex Multisport team since 2007, as an amateur and now professional. Alex has a unique and valuable perspective on sports medicine as both a physician and profession athlete. In 2009 and beyond Alex will continue to build on his success as an athlete along with many of the same partners in the past, most importantly, his coach Kurt Perham at Personal Best Multisport Coaching and the Timex Multisport Team. He has competed in all distances of triathlon from sprint to Ironman, with his focus on long course racing. Alex currently lives in Durham, NC with his dog Zoey and wife, Ashley, who is a resident at Duke University.

Ronnie Barnes
Vice President of Medical Services, NY Giants

Ronnie Barnes, a member of the Giants organization since 1976 and the team's head trainer since 1980, was promoted to the position of Vice President of Medical Services in 2003. One of the most respected athletic trainers in professional sports, Barnes has compiled an impressive dossier of accomplishments since joining the Giants as a student intern 33 years ago. He was elected to the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in June 1999. In 2002, he was voted the Athletic Trainer of the Year by NFL physicians.

Also in 2002, his alma mater, East Carolina University, honored Barnes for his many contributions to the school by opening the Ronnie Barnes African-American Resource Center at the school's Joyner Library.

The 5,200-square foot resource center collects materials about the legacy and future of African-Americans in eastern North Carolina and the Southeast. It includes books, software, journals and collections of works on such influential figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.

Barnes was the first African-American graduate of the Sports Medicine Department at ECU. He has since been elected to the East Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame and been named a winner of the Outstanding Alumni Award.

On March 20, 2004, Barnes was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Fike High School in North Carolina.

Since becoming the Giants' head athletic trainer, Barnes has twice been voted National Professional Trainer of the Year by the National Athletic Trainers Association. He served on the NATA board of certification for 10 years. Barnes is the past president of the NATA Research and Education Foundation. He is a member of the NFL Subcommittee on Mild Brain Trauma. Barnes recently completed a seven-year term as President of the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society. In June of 1996, he was awarded the NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. In 1999, Barnes and his assistants won the Ed Block Courage Award as the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year.

Barnes has lectured nationally and internationally on sports medicine. He wrote a popular textbook in the medical field called Athletic Training and Sports Medicine, Third Edition. He was named the March of Dimes Man of the Year in 1994.

A native of Rocky Mount, N.C., Barnes resides in Cedar Grove, N.J.