Responsibilities: Associate Director of Sports Health / Head Athletic Trainer -Football
Alma Mater/Degree/Year: University of Florida / Exercise and Sports Sciences / Graduated 2000; University of Kentucky / MS in Kinesiology / Athletic Training
Hometown: Boca Raton, FL
UAA staff since: 2013
In their own words...
What is your favorite memory as a UAA employee?
Winning at LSU in 2016 and SEC Championship Games
What is the best part about your job?
Relationships made with athletes and staff
What do you like to do “off the field”?
Spend time with my family and golfing
Paul Silvestri enters his 10th season with the Gators, having been promoted to director of sports health in 2022 following the hiring of football head coach Billy Napier.
Silvestri, who has been on staff at Florida since 2013, oversees the football athletic training room, working alongside associate director Tony Hill.
A native of Boca Raton, Fla., Silvestri played a key role in navigating the obstacles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 football seasons.
Silvestri started his career with Florida Atlantic, where he spent three seasons (2003-05) as an athletic trainer. He then served as an assistant athletic trainer at Kentucky from 2007 to 2008.
Prior to the 2008 football season, Silvestri was hired as Utah's head athletic trainer for football and spent five seasons in Salt Lake City before joining the Gators.
Silvestri graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science in 2000, and with master of science in kinesiology from the University of Kentucky in 2003.
