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Montano, Phil
Phil Montano
- Title:
- Athletic Trainer
SPORT ASSIGNMENT: Baseball
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Phil Montano, AT, ATC, MS, was named the head baseball athletic trainer at Florida State in the summer of 2023 after spending two seasons as an assistant athletic trainer at Notre Dame. The 2026 season marks Montano’s third working directly with the FSU baseball program.
Montano has helped FSU to back-to-back NCAA Super Regional appearances in 2024-25, one of five programs to achieve that feat, with a berth in the College World Series in 2024.
Montano was a part of current FSU head coach Link Jarrett’s staff that helped lead the Fighting Irish to the 2022 College World Series, the third appearance in program history. Montano spent the 2023 summer working with USA Baseball U16-U-17 Development Team in Cary, N.C.
Prior to his time at Notre Dame, Montano was the head athletic trainer for the Joliet Slammers baseball team of the Frontier League, where he worked alongside Dr. Tony Romeo, a former orthopedic surgeon for the Chicago White Sox who has contributed greatly to baseball sports medicine research.
Montano also spent six years at the University of Cincinnati working with the baseball, football and basketball programs. In 2019, Cincinnati baseball won the AAC Championship and played in the Corvallis Regional, the program’s first postseason berth since 1974. At Cincinnati, he worked with current Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Joey Wiemer and Oakland A’s catcher Ryan Noda.
Montano graduated from Ohio University in 2014 and earned his Master’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science from PennWest California in 2016.
Montano has helped FSU to back-to-back NCAA Super Regional appearances in 2024-25, one of five programs to achieve that feat, with a berth in the College World Series in 2024.
Montano was a part of current FSU head coach Link Jarrett’s staff that helped lead the Fighting Irish to the 2022 College World Series, the third appearance in program history. Montano spent the 2023 summer working with USA Baseball U16-U-17 Development Team in Cary, N.C.
Prior to his time at Notre Dame, Montano was the head athletic trainer for the Joliet Slammers baseball team of the Frontier League, where he worked alongside Dr. Tony Romeo, a former orthopedic surgeon for the Chicago White Sox who has contributed greatly to baseball sports medicine research.
Montano also spent six years at the University of Cincinnati working with the baseball, football and basketball programs. In 2019, Cincinnati baseball won the AAC Championship and played in the Corvallis Regional, the program’s first postseason berth since 1974. At Cincinnati, he worked with current Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Joey Wiemer and Oakland A’s catcher Ryan Noda.
Montano graduated from Ohio University in 2014 and earned his Master’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science from PennWest California in 2016.
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