Erin Jones started as the associate athletics director for sports medicine in June of 2025.
Jones is the first female head of sports medicine in ODU history. She is currently one of six female head athletic trainers in the Sun Belt Conference.
Jones comes to ODU after spending nearly five years at William & Mary. She worked with the men’s soccer team and assisted with football. She was elevated to an associate athletic trainer in 2023 before being named the head athletic trainer in 2024. She implemented manual therapy techniques, dry needling techniques, and functional rehabilitation programs into healthcare plans for her student-athletes and managed 11 athletic trainers while with the Tribe.
Prior to joining W&M, Jones worked as a clinical athletic trainer in the sports medicine department at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters.
Jones got her start in athletic training at Tiffin University (Ohio) in 2014 and worked with the Dragons for five years with a variety of sports, including football, baseball, cheerleading, swimming and diving and women’s lacrosse.
She earned both her undergraduate and master’s degree from Bloomsburg University (Pa.).
She is married to Nathan Jones, a men's soccer assistant coach for the Monarchs. The couple has twin daughters Charlotte Mae and Mary Louise.