GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida head football mentor Billy Napier introduced Sunday that Paul Silvestri has been promoted to director of athletics health, football.
 
Silvestri, who has been on employees at Florida considering that 2013, will continue on to oversee the football athletic instruction space and will operate together with just lately hired associate director Tony Hill.
 
A native of Boca Raton, Fla., Silvestri has performed a vital role in navigating the obstructions introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic for the duration of the 2020 and 2021 football seasons.
 
Silvestri began his career with Florida Atlantic, where by he expended 3 seasons (2003-05) as an athletic trainer. He then served as an assistant athletic coach at Kentucky from 2007 to 2008.
 
Prior to the 2008 football time, Silvestri was hired as Utah’s head athletic trainer for football and spent five seasons in Salt Lake Town ahead of joining the Gators.
 
Silvestri graduated from the College of Florida with a bachelor’s diploma in training and athletics science in 2000, and with learn of science in kinesiology from the University of Kentucky in 2003.