Hall of Fame
Jacobson served as the first Head Athletic Trainer for Mercyhurst, developing and opening the athletic training room facilities in 1983. He was also appointed to start and be the director of the athletic training undergraduate program at Mercyhurst. Jacobson maintained the Head AT position and AT Curriculum Director from 1983-97, caring for countless athletes and teaching countless students. Also, during this time, Jacobson spearheaded and oversaw the initial accreditation of the athletic training education program by the National Athletic Trainers Association in 1993 and the reaccreditation in 1997. In 2002, Jacobson moved on to direct the expanding sports medicine programs and maintained the sports medicine chair position for a full 20 years. Under his tenure as Sports Medicine department chairperson the student enrollment grew from 90 students to 200. In 2014, as the lead author he published in the Journal of Athletic Training "Cervical Spine Motion During American Football Equipment Removal Protocols: A Challenge to the All of Nothing Endeavor". This research project won the 2014 Outstanding Research Manuscript of the year for the Journal of Athletic Training and were presented and taught by Jacobson and a Sports Medicine department student to the New York Jets, Giants, and Indianapolis Colts athletic training and medical staff.
