Pat Hassell Named Gator Baseball Athletic Trainer
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | Baseball
Pat Hassell has been named the Head Athletic Trainer for the University of Florida baseball team, the program recently announced. He is responsible for the prevention, care and rehabilitation of injuries. Hassell takes over for John Barrett, who is now working with Florida's women's basketball program after spending the previous seven seasons with the baseball team.
Hassell returned to Gainesville after four seasons at the University of Louisville, where he worked with the Cardinals' baseball and men's and women's golf programs. In 2010, he was an integral part in the health of the Cardinals as they won their second-straight Big East regular-season title, won a school-record 50 games and earned the program's first-ever national seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to joining the Louisville athletic training staff in the fall of 2007, Hassell spent two seasons as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Clemson University, where he worked with the Tigers' baseball program while current Gator head coach Kevin O'Sullivan was a member of Jack Leggett's staff. While at Clemson, he worked with the Tigers' 2006 NCAA College World Series and Atlantic Coast Conference title-winning squad, as well as their 2007 NCAA Super Regional team.
Hassell is a 2004 graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in exercise and sport sciences. He was a student athletic trainer in 2002-03, where he worked with the Gators' baseball team which advanced to the NCAA Coral Gables Regional.
Following his graduation in 2004, Hassell continued to work for Florida as an intern athletic trainer, where he worked with the 2004 Southeastern Conference Champion Gator volleyball team and the 2005 NCAA runner-up Gator men's track and field team.
A native of Miami, Fla., Hassell is certified by the National Athletic Trainers' Association and by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a Corrective Exercise Specialist. He is also a member of the Southeastern Athletic Trainers' Association and is licensed by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. Hassell earned his master's degree in human resource development from Clemson in 2010.
