Lawson joined Eckerd in October 2022 as an Assistant Athletic Trainer. He enters his second season with Eckerd in 2023-24. 

Prior to arriving at Eckerd College, Lawson spent five season with Georgia Southwestern State University (2017-2022) where he served as an Assistant Athletic Trainer, overseeing the athletic performance department. In the 2021-22 season Lawson was the Athletic Trainer with men’s soccer, baseball, and men’s cross country. In his previous years, he worked with all the teams the university fielded.

As the of the Head Athletic Performance department, established in 2017, he successfully implemented team strength and conditioning programs for all sports. Throughout his time in this role he implemented technology programs, used as a tool to effectively enhance training programs and overall student-athlete welfare during sport participation. Lawson completely redesigned the athletic weight room and modernizing it to a state-of-the-art facility that is functional for the needs of collegiate athletes. The project was completed in 2022. He attained his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification from the NSCA in 2017, and in 2020 he became a Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach also from the NSCA.

In the summer of 2021, Lawson worked at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs as part of the Volunteer Sports Medicine Program.

Lawson worked at ESPN's Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida, from 2016-17, where he provided coverage to a wide range of sports. From 2014-16, he was a Graduate Assistant at Lindenwood University where he worked primarily with the women’s rugby team as well as men’s and women’s swim and dive, men’s and women’s water polo, and women’s synchronized swimming.

Lawson graduated in from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training in 2014, and obtained his Master of Science in Human Performance from Lindenwood in 2016. Since 2014 he has maintained his Athletic Training Certification with the BOC.