Temple hires Al Bellamy as head athletic trainer

PHILADELPHIA  – Temple has hired Al Bellamy as head athletic trainer.

Bellamy, who began his new duties on April 15, will oversee all 24 of Temple’s intercollegiate sports, while working directly with the football and men’s golf teams, and managing the sports medicine staff.  He brings 25 years of NFL athletic training experience to Temple, recently completing his 12th season with the Detroit Lions.

“We are happy to announce the addition of Al Bellamy to Temple University,” A.D. Bill Bradshaw said.  “Al brings a wealth of sports medicine experience from the NFL and collegiate levels. He will be a great asset to our department. We are pleased to welcome Al and his family into the Temple Athletics family.”

With Detroit, Bellamy helped manage the team’s athletic training staff and worked closely with the team’s physicians.

Bellamy arrived in Detroit following 13 years as assistant trainer with the Washington Redskins. He began working with the Redskins in 1988 and was a member of the team’s medical staff when Washington won Super Bowl XXVI.

In 2009, Bellamy also served on the Gatorade Advisory Board.

Prior to joining the Redskins, he served a two-year stint as an assistant athletic trainer with the University of Miami (Fla.) football team (1986-87). During this span, he worked with the Hurricanes’ program that claimed the 1987 National Championship and included former Lions’ safety Bennie Blades and wide receiver Brett Perriman. That assignment was his first full-time job and came after he had earned his master’s degree in physical education (emphasis on sports medicine) from Syracuse.

Before obtaining his master’s from Syracuse, Bellamy attended Michigan State as an undergraduate and received his bachelor’s degree in health education in 1984. While at MSU, he began working in the NFL when he served training camp internships with both the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers.

Prior to attending Michigan State, Bellamy attended Archbishop John Carroll High School in Washington, DC. In recognition of Bellamy’s career in athletic training, the school’s annual Student Athletic Trainer and Manager of the Year Award is named in his honor.

"My family and I are very excited to be joining the Temple Athletics family, and are looking forward to working with the Temple staff and student-athletes,” Bellamy said.