Matt Summers - Football Coach - University of Louisville Athletic

Matt Summers

Title:
Sr. Director of Sports Medicine/Football
Email:
matts@GoCards.com
Phone:
852-3474

Matt Summers has returned to the University of Louisville as the director of sports medicine and head football athletic trainer.

Summers is rejoining the Cardinals’ football program after beginning his career at Louisville from 2003-05. Summers started as a graduate assistant and was promoted to an assistant athletic trainer in 2005.

With the Cardinals, he assisted the head athletic trainer with the prevention, assessment and care of athletic injuries related to football, designed and implemented rehabilitation protocols, and recruitment and supervision of graduate assistants and students.

After his three years with the Cardinals, Summers took a position in the National Football League with the San Diego Chargers for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

With the Chargers, Summers helped conduct and monitor the team’s rehabilitation program, monitored the field and communicated with the coaching staff during practices, managed inventory and budgeting, and was responsible for interviewing and hiring summer students and seasonal interns.

Following the 2007 season, Summers served as a member of the 2008 AFC Pro Bowl Athletic Training staff.

Summers earned his bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Kentucky in 2002, returned to his alma mater in 2008-09 as senior athletic trainer.

He served as the director of rehabilitation, generated daily injury reports for coaches, supervised graduate assistants and students, was responsible for the budget and supplies, and maintained injury records.

After working at UK for one season, Summers joined the Arkansas athletic training staff in 2009 as the head athletic trainer for football before being promoted to director of athletic training for the Razorbacks’ athletic department in 2013.

At Arkansas, Summers oversaw the athletic training department, leading a staff of full-time employees, graduate assistants and student athletic trainers. He was in charge of developing and implementing health care policies and procedures for student-athletes, coordinating contractual agreements with health care providers that comprise the sports medicine team and managed the athletic training budget.

Along with the collaboration of team physicians, Summers was responsible for directly overseeing the health care of football student athletes. He helped develop and implement strategies and protocols to prevent, treat and rehabilitate athletic injuries and illnesses.

Summers, who holds a master’s degree in health and wellness from Louisville, is married to the former Kim Ahr. The couple has a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Ashlyn.