Performance Readiness Specialist
Champions Blue, LLC (University of Kentucky Athletics) · Posted Nov 9, 2026
- Kentucky, United States
- Full-time
- $82K–$139K per year
- 7+ years
The Performance Readiness Specialist is a dual-credentialed professional (Doctor of Physical Therapy or Certified Athletic Trainer and Strength & Conditioning Coach) responsible for overseeing the safe, efficient, and performance-driven transition of injured football student-athletes from the athletic training room, through the weight room, and back to full football participation.
Compensation
Salary Range: $81,640.00 - $138,798.00
Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead performance coordinator for football return-to-play cases, in collaboration with certified athletic trainers, team physicians, strength and conditioning personnel, sports science staff, and football coaches.
- Design, implement, and progress individualized performance readiness plans based on injury type, healing status, medical restrictions, training history, football position demands, and objective performance data.
- Transition student-athletes from rehabilitation-focused exercise to progressive strength, power, speed, agility, conditioning, contact preparation, and football-specific performance activities.
- Collaborate daily with Sports Medicine and Football Strength and Conditioning staff to align rehabilitation, workload, training, recovery, and return-to-practice activities.
- Establish, document, and monitor objective readiness benchmarks, including strength, power, range of motion, movement quality, asymmetry, workload tolerance, conditioning, and position-specific task performance.