Payne Alexander enters his first year as a member of the Santa Clara University sports medicine staff in 2025, where he oversees care for the women’s volleyball and men’s golf teams as Assistant Director of Sports Medicine.
Before joining Santa Clara, Payne was an Associate Athletic Trainer at the University of San Francisco where he worked with women’s volleyball, beach volleyball, and the cross country programs from 2022-24. He was also responsible for Sports Medicine’s managerial accounting and medical supply ordering processes along with leading the athletic training student intern program.
Prior to moving to California, Payne completed his undergraduate education at Boston University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training in 2017. He completed rotations with the BU men’s ice hockey team as well as at clinical sites including Tufts University, MIT, and Emerson College. Following BU, Payne pursued a graduate assistantship at Nichols College from 2017-19, where he earned his M.B.A. while working as a Massachusetts certified athletic trainer coordinating coverage for their football and baseball programs. He then relocated to New York City, where he spent 2019-21 working at the U.S. Athletic Training Center, an outpatient physical therapy clinic in Manhattan treating a variety of orthopedic injuries and postoperative rehabilitation programs.
Payne grew up in Missouri, and has a passion for ice hockey, golf, and exploring the outdoors through hiking and skiing. He cheers primarily for the St. Louis Blues and New Orleans Saints. Payne got engaged to his fiancé, Allie, in June of 2024.
