The Kentucky Wildcats have hired a new head athletic trainer for the basketball team.
On Wednesday, the team announced that Geoffrey Staton had been hired as the head athletic trainer for the basketball Cats.
Staton will take over for Chris Simmons, who served in the role since 2009-10 and is now off to Memphis as their head athletic trainer. Staton will begin his role with the Wildcats immediately.
”I am incredibly humbled and excited to return to the University of Kentucky and the Big Blue Nation,” Staton said in a press release. “Since attending graduate school here, UK continues to be a very special place to me.