Ruem Malasarn Head Athletic Trainer

Ensuring the health and fitness of Cal Poly Pomona student-athletes is Head Athletic Trainer Ruem Malasarn.

Malasarn, who has been with Cal Poly Pomona since August of 2000 and was promoted to his current position in June of 2002, is responsible for the health - through athletic training - of more than 250 student-athletes. He also supervises the drug testing and drug prevention programs and educates one certified athletic trainer and seven student athletic trainers.

This past year, Malasarn had an article on the characteristics of successful athletic training published in the Journal of Athletic Training. He also spoke on the same topic at the National Athletic Trainers’ Clinical Symposium in Los Angeles in 2001.

Prior to his current stint at Cal Poly Pomona, Malasarn was a graduate assistant at Fresno State from 1998-2000. He had also served as a student-trainer at Cal Poly Pomona from 1995-97. Malasarn did his undergraduate work at Cal Poly Pomona and received his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with a minor in communications in 1997. He earned his Master’s degree from Fresno State in 2000.
He earned his certification from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association in 1997 and was certified as a strength and conditioning specialist in 2001.

Malasarn was an assistant athletic trainer and lecturer in the Kinesiology department at Cal Poly Pomona beginning in 2000.
He is a graduate of Arcadia High School, where he competed in swimming and water polo. He also swam at Mt. San Antonio College for one year before completing his undergraduate work at Cal Poly Pomona.

An avid surfer, Malasarn repairs and refurbishes surfboards in his spare time. He and his wife, Maria Sansui, were married in June 2000 and reside in Arcadia. Maria is a swim coach and teacher at Glendale High School.