GabeAmponsah

Education:

• Duquesne University, 2006
• University of Kentucky, 2008

Additional Experience/Certifications:

• Assistant Athletic Trainer, Florida State Football
• Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer, University of Kentucky Football
• Athletic Training Intern, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist

Biography

• Enters his 11th season overall and fifth as the head athletic trainer for football
• Served as the team’s senior athletic trainer before being promoted in 2015
• Was a graduate assistant with the Kentucky athletic training staff in 2006 and 2007
• Spent the 2008 season at Florida State, working with the Seminoles’ football team, before returning to Kentucky
• Graduated from Duquesne University in 2006 with a degree in athletic training and earned a master’s degree from UK in the same discipline in May 2008
• Worked as an athletic training intern for the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2005-06 season
• Certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association and in the state of Kentucky
• Married to Amanda Trout and the couple has three daughters
• Amponsah, a Ghanaian American, is a native of Columbia, Md.