Youth Sports Safety Update
Youth Sport Safety Update is our new Podcast series from the Jacksonville Sports Medicine Program. Our goal is to provide you with relevant information related to youth sports safety through compelling interviews. There are many stories and topics to be shared that will benefit athletes, coaches, and parents as well as athletic trainers, physicians and healthcare providers. JSMP is dedicated to youth sports injury through awareness, advocacy, and prevention. Episodes are hosted by Bob Sefcik, Executive Director of JSMP, and produced by Jim Mackie, JSMP Program Development.
Youth Sports Safety Update
Jim Madaleno: Youth Sports Tips for Safety, Hydration, and Wisdom for Parents and Coaches
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Jim Madaleno Executive Assoc Athletics Dir/Sports Medicine and Performance
madalen@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.