Football
- Title:
- Director of Sports Medicine/Football
- Email:
- shawn@GoCards.com
- Phone:
- 852-3474
Shawn Love was elevated to Director of Sports Medicine/Football in April of 2022 after serving as the Associate Football Athletic Trainer for the Cardinals since July of 2018. Along with the collaboration of team physicians, Love is responsible for directly overseeing the health care of football student-athletes. He helps to develop and implement strategies and protocols to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate athletic injuries and illnesses.
Love joined U of L after four seasons as an Assistant Football Athletic Trainer at the University of Kansas, including serving as the interim Head Football Athletic Trainer in the spring of 2018.
At KU, Love was responsible for the inventory and ordering of medical supplies for the football facility. He also served as an adjunct professor for the CAATE accredited undergraduate program at Kansas from 2014-18.
Before joining the Jayhawks, Love was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Duke University where he covered baseball and aided the football program.
A 2008 graduate from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in Athletic Training, Love earned a master’s degree in Athletic Training from the University of Kentucky in 2010. At UK, he worked two seasons with the baseball and football programs as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer.
Following his graduation from Kentucky, Love served as a year-long Athletic Training intern with the New England Patriots during the 2010 NFL season and began his career as a training camp intern with the San Francisco 49ers in 2007.
A native of Mattoon, IL, Love is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association. He also holds a Corrective Exercise Specialist certification from the National Academy of Sport Medicine and a Blood Flow Restriction Rehabilitation Certification. Additionally, Love is certified in Functional Dry Needling level one and two. Shawn is married to the former Jackalyn Bradley. The couple has a daughter, Beckett, a son, Parks, and twin daughters, Slate and Decker.
