USC Aiken Athletic Training Staff

Brandon Aiken
Assistant Athletic Director/Sports Medicine
Phone: 803-641-3367
Email: brandona@usca.edu

Brandon Aiken is in his 10th year as head athletic trainer and 12th overall at USC Aiken.

Aiken, a native of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., joined the USCA training staff in 1997 as a graduate assistant. He served in that capacity for three years until stepping into the head position in 2000.

He was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine prior to the 2009-10 athletic year.

A 1997 graduate of Saint Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., Aiken received his Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine. Aiken is certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

Aiken also served as assistant and head athletic trainer at Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center in Aiken, S.C., for more than three years. At Hitchcock, he worked with high school, college, and professional athletes as well as general outpatient rehabilitation.

Aiken has guided the USC Aiken athletic training staff to back-to-back (2007-08 and 2008-09) Peach Belt Conference Athletic Training Staff of the Year awards. 

Dr. Vaughan Massie
USC Aiken Team Physician

Dr. Vaughan Massie has been USC Aiken’s team physician since 2006. He has played a vital role in the professional and quality care of USC Aiken’s student-athletes. For his efforts, Dr. Massie was honored with the USC Aiken Athletic Department Volunteer of the Year award at the conclusion of the 2009-10 athletic year.

Dr. Massie currently is in private practice at the Carolina Musculoskeletal Institute in Aiken, S.C., which is located just across the street from USC Aiken’s campus.

No stranger to intercollegiate athletics, Dr. Massie was a four-year letterman on the Rhodes College men's tennis team. He was a two-year team captain and he was voted Most Valuable Player during his senior season.

Dr. Massie graduated from Rhodes in 1995 with a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry. He then obtained his M.D. with Highest Honors from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 2000.