Baseball
- Title:
- Associate Director/Sports Medicine
- Email:
- path@GoCards.com
- Phone:
- 852-8093
Pat Hassell is in his seventh season as Associate Director of Sports Medicine at the University of Louisville and in his 11th season overall overseeing the prevention, care and rehabilitation of injuries for the Cardinals baseball program.
During his second stint with the baseball program, the Cardinals have advanced to six consecutive NCAA Regionals, five Super Regionals and three College World Series (2014, 2017, 2019).
Hassell returned to Louisville in the fall of 2013 after working two seasons as the head athletic trainer for the University of Florida baseball program. With the help of Hassell in 2012, the Gators held the No. 1 ranking for the majority of the season, swept through the NCAA Gainesville Regional and Super Regional rounds and advanced to the NCAA College World Series for the third year in a row. Florida made its sixth consecutive NCAA appearance in 2013.
Prior to returning to his alma mater in Gainesville in 2012, Hassell spent four seasons in Louisville working with the Cardinals’ baseball and men’s and women’s golf programs. During his first tenure in Louisville from 2008-11, the Cardinals advanced to three NCAA Regionals, made one NCAA Super Regional appearance (2009), won two Big East regular season championships (2009-10) and earned the program’s first-ever national seed in the NCAA Championship (2010).
Before 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 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.
Hassell is a certified athletic trainer by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, as well as a Corrective Exercise Specialist by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. 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.
A native of Miami, Fla., Hassell and his wife Maggie reside in Louisville.
