SkylerGress

BIO

Skyler (Cottrell) Gress enters her first season as the senior athletic trainer for Kentucky football after being promoted in the summer of 2023.
Prior to her current position, served as the assistant athletic trainer for the Wildcats’ football team for two years (2021-23).
Began her athletic training career as a summer athletic training intern for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons in 2017 before working two years (2017-2019) as the athletic trainer for Our Lady of the Scared Heart High School in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.
In the summer of 2018, worked as the summer athletic training intern for the NFL’s Denver Broncos.
Spent January-May of 2019 as the athletic training clinical intern for the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers before moving up to an intern assistant athletic trainer from 2019-21.
Attended and worked as a student athletic trainer at Emporia State in Emporia, Kansas from 2012-14 before transferring to Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Earned a bachelor’s degree in May of 2017 from Colorado State University-Pueblo in athletic training.
Attended graduate school at Pittsburgh and earned a master’s degree in sports medicine in 2019.
Native of Douglass, Kansas.