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JimMadaleno
- title Executive Assoc Athletics Director for Sports Medicine and Performance
- email ukathletictraining@uky.edu
Education:
- Michigan State, 1980
- Florida State, 1981
Additional Experience/Certifications:
- Head Athletic Trainer, Valdosta State
- Assistant Athletic Trainer, New York Giants
- Athletic Trainer, Valdosta State
- Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer, Florida State Football
Biography
- Began working on the Wildcats’ athletic training staff in 1997
- Spent 14 years as the director of sports medicine at Kentucky, overseeing football
- Promoted to senior associate athletics director for sports medicine after the 2018 season
- Won the 2018 Chris Patrick Award awarded by the SEC Sports Medicine Committee … The award recognizes “work ethic, loyalty, and a caring-nature to the student-athlete”
- Came to UK from Valdosta State University, where he was head athletic trainer from 1989-97 and also served as assistant athletics director for sports medicine
- Worked as the undergraduate curriculum director for an athletic training education program that has been accredited nationally.
- Began his athletic training career as a student athletic trainer at Michigan State University, where he graduated in 1980
- Served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Florida State in 1980-81 and earned a master’s in the department of movement science
- Was Valdosta State’s first full-time athletics trainer Valdosta State in 1982 with the inception of the school’s football program
- Was an assistant athletics trainer with the New York Giants in 1985 and was with the team when the Giants defeated Denver in the 1987 Super Bowl
- Joined the renowned Hughston Sports Medicine Clinic in Columbus, Ga., in 1988 and then returned to Valdosta State in 1989
- Has mentored hundreds of students in their pursuit of athletic training
- Three of his former Kentucky assistants are now head athletic trainers for football in the Southeastern Conference – Gabe Amponsah at Kentucky, Jeff Allen at Alabama and Paul Silvestri at Florida
- In all, 12 former students or graduate assistants are Division 1 head athletic trainers
- Is certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association and in the state of Kentucky
- Jim and his wife, Paddy, have two children, Kiley Ann and Ryan James
- Originally from Dearborn, Mich.