Hired in August 2007, Mark Pocinich MS, ATC is the new head athletic trainer for the 49ers. Pocinich spent the past seven years as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Southern California. During his time at USC Pocinich worked with the Trojan football, men's basketball, baseball, women's water polo and crew squads. He collaborated with staff on the design and management of the new athletic training facility in the Galen Center and he and his staff served as the host medical team for the Pac 10 Men's Basketball Tournament (2003-07). Prior to his time at USC, he spent two years as an assistant trainer at Eastern Washington. A 1996 graduate of San Diego State with a degree in athletic training, Pocinich earned his Master's degree in sports medicine in 1998 at the University of Oregon.

Jen Kawamoto, MA, ATC is the newest addition to the Sports Medicine Staff, joining the 49ers in 2008 as an assistant athletic trainer. Kawamoto was most recently the athletic trainer at McKinley High School in Hawai'i, where she provided all athletic training services including injury and illness evaluation and rehabilitation. Kawamoto also has extensive collegiate experience, working for four years at Seton Hall University. At Seton Hall, Kawamoto was responsible for covering the women's soccer and baseball teams, and also served as the Coordinator of Substance Abuse of Athletics, running the drug-testing program for all of athletics. A 1999 graduate of Pacific, Kawamoto served as a graduate assistant at Stanford University before earning her master's in kinesiology at San Jose State in 2004.

Shauna Horton, MS, ATC is in her fifth year at LBSU but her third as an Assistant Athletic Trainer. Her first two years she was a graduate assistant athletic trainer and completed her Master of Science degree in Sports Medicine and Injury Studies. A native of the North Bay Area of California, Shauna started at Santa Rosa Junior College and then went on to Fresno State University to receive her B.S. in Sports Medicine in 2003. After graduation she was a physical therapy aide and athletic trainer at Sierra Pacific Orthopaedic Center in Fresno. Shauna was also an intern for the San Francisco Giants minor league affiliate the Fresno Grizzlies. She was an athletic trainer at Florida Atlantic University, USA Junior Olympic Baseball, and Perfect Game Baseball in South Florida. Last summer Shauna was an athletic training intern with the Cincinnati Reds at their minor league facility in Sarasota, Florida. Her primary responsibility at LBSU is to provide daily care, injury prevention and management, and rehabilitation for the Dirtbag Baseball team.