Scavo Named Head Football Athletic Trainer
June 22, 2011
CORAL GABLES, FLA. – Vincent “Vinny” Scavo will join the University of Miami’s athletic training staff as its Associate Athletic Trainer and Head Football Athletic Trainer, announced UM’s Head Athletic Trainer Scott McGonagle on Wednesday.
Scavo joins the Hurricanes athletic department after working as the Director of Sports Medicine Services and Head Athletic Trainer at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine since 2008. With the division serving as the official sports medicine provider for the Hurricanes, Scavo has already worked closely with the team doctors and student-athletes – relationships that will continue in his new capacity.
“We are looking forward to having Vinny join the athletic training department,” said McGonagle. “He brings with him a history of championship success during his previous time here, and we hope this will be the case again.”
Scavo has extensive experience as an athletic trainer at the professional, college and high school levels, previously serving as Miami’s baseball athletic trainer from 1984-87, including during the Hurricanes’ 1985 national championship season.
Scavo worked with both the New York Yankees (1981-83) and Florida Marlins (1992-96) organizations, earning Minor League Athletic Trainer of the Year honors by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer Society and Florida State League Class A Baseball Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1994.
After two years as the Rehabilitation Coordinator for the Marlins’ minor and major league teams (1994-96), he was named Director of Sports Medicine at Doctors Hospital and then served as the Head Athletic Trainer at several South Florida high schools for 13 years, working at Miami Southridge (1996-2001), Chaminade-Madonna (2001-06) and Coral Gables (2006-08). Over that time, he developed the curriculum for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Coaches Certification Course and the MDCPS Injury Reporting System. In 2006, Scavo was named Florida’s High School Athletic Trainer of the Year.
Originally from Staten Island, N.Y., Scavo is a 1983 graduate of Florida State with a bachelor’s in education. He is certified from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and is a licensed athletic trainer.
