Jim Maurer begins his 33rd season as a Dallas Cowboys athletic trainer, serving the last 27 years as the club's head athletic trainer.
Maurer and his staff earned the 2021 Ed Block NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year by the Professional Football Athletic Training Society, a prestigious honor following a particularly trying 2020 season with a myriad of injuries and constantly evolving NFL protocols put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Named in honor of Ed Block - a former Baltimore Colts head athletic trainer - the award is given annually to the athletic training staff that exemplifies courage, compassion, commitment and community.
Following the 2016 season, Maurer was named NFL Athletic Trainer of the Year by The NFL Physicians Society. Maurer originally took over responsibility of the Athletic Training Department in 1996 after serving as an assistant athletic trainer in Dallas for six years. He served as a graduate assistant with the Cowboys for two seasons prior to being hired full time in 1990.
Maurer was elected to the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS) Executive Board as the NFC head athletic trainer representative in 1999. He was re-elected to the same position for a fourth term in 2007 and held the position until 2010. Following the 2002 season, Maurer and his staff were recognized as the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year by their peers. Maurer was also appointed to the NFL Musculoskeletol Committee in 2018.
A Dallas native, Maurer earned a degree in physical education in 1988 from Southern Methodist University, where he worked with the football and swim teams.
Maurer worked as a summer assistant with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1987, after spending the summer of 1986 with the Cowboys in the same capacity.
Maurer has two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin. Maurer and his wife, Jodi, reside in Frisco, Texas.
