Aidan Gomes, former athletic training student at Columbia University, was named an assistant athletic trainer at Fordham University in August of 2022.  He will be working with the water polo and baseball programs.
 
Gomes served as an athletic training student at Columbia University in the winter of 2021-2022, assisting the men’s and women’s basketball athletic trainers with daily and weekly duties such as pre-practice treatment, practice coverage, treatment hours, and kit preparation. He developed and implemented rehabilitation programs for student-athletes to return to full sport participation. Gomes also provided injury evaluations and rehabilitation exercises for student-athletes as well as preventative care.
 
Prior to his stay at Columbia, Gomes was an athletic training student at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2021. He worked primarily with the sprint football squad and assisted with the varsity football program. His duties included assisting the head football trainer with field preparations, treatment hours, practice and game preparation. Gomes also provided evaluations and rehabilitation exercises for the student-athletes.
 
In the spring of 2021, Gomes served as an athletic training student at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia where he provided health care for middle school and high school teams, including basketball, lacrosse, swimming, and track and field.
 
A 2019 graduate of Lincoln University where he received a degree in Health Science, Gomes earned a master’s degree in Athletic Training from Temple University in 2022. While a graduate student, he worked with the field hockey and women’s track and field programs for the Owls.