Bob Kuzmeski Position: Athletic Trainer Experience: 6th Season Alma Mater: Springfield College, 1988

Bob Kuzmeski enters his sixth year working with the hockey team at the University of Massachusetts. He is also currently the co-director for the Springfield College Athletic Training Workshop. Kuzmeski came to UMass following a seven-year stint as a science teacher and athletic trainer at Eaglebrook School.

Kuzmeski received his bachelor's degree in health fitness with a concentration in athletic training in May 1988 from Springfield College. He received his master's degree in health science with a concentration in sports injury prevention and management from Springfield College in 1992. During that time, Kuzmeski was a teaching fellow and athletic trainer at Springfield College (Mass.). He was also an assistant athletic trainerr for the U.S. Junior National Rowing Team from 1989-1992.

After receiving his master's degree, Kuzmeski was the head athletic trainer at Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn. He followed that up with a stint as an athletic trainer at Rehab West in Ludlow, Mass.

He has also served time as a volunteer trainer at the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Medicine Program in Lake Placid, N.Y., the host athletic trainer for a number of conference and national tournaments and as an associate athletic trainer at SUNY-Oneonta in Oneonta, N.Y.

Kuzmeski and his wife, Mary, have three children. They reside in Hadley, Mass.