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Al Bellamy
Al Bellamy
Al Bellamy joined Temple Athletics’ as director of athletic training in the spring of 2013.

He oversees all 19 of Temple’s intercollegiate sports, while working directly with the football team and managing the sports medicine staff.  He brings 25 years of NFL athletic training experience to Temple, including  12 seasons with the Detroit Lions.

With Detroit, Bellamy helped manage the team’s athletic training staff and worked closely with the team’s physicians. 

Bellamy arrived in Detroit following 13 years as an assistant trainer with the Washington Redskins. He began working with the Redskins in 1988 and was a member of the team’s medical staff when Washington won Super Bowl XXVI.  In 2009, Bellamy also served on the Gatorade Advisory Board.

Prior to joining the Redskins, he served a two-year stint as an assistant athletic trainer with the University of Miami (FL) football team (1986-87). During this span, he worked with the Hurricanes’ program that claimed the 1987 National Championship. That assignment was his first full-time job and came after he had earned his master’s degree in physical education (emphasis on sports medicine) from Syracuse.

Before obtaining his master’s from Syracuse, Bellamy attended Michigan State as an undergraduate and received his bachelor’s degree in health education in 1984. While at MSU, he began working in the NFL when he served training camp internships with both the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers.

Throughout his career, Bellamy has worked with 21 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Morten Anderson, Champ Bailey, Bobby Beathard, Fred Dean, Edward DeBartolo, Joe Gibbs, Darrell Green, Russ Grimm, Charles Haley, Michael Irvin, Ronnie Lott, Bobby Mitchell, Art Monk, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Charley Sanders, Deion Sanders, Bruce Smith, Charley Taylor, Emmitt Thomas, and Bill Walsh.

Prior to attending Michigan State, Bellamy attended Archbishop John Carroll High School in Washington, DC. In recognition of Bellamy’s career in athletic training, the school’s annual Student Athletic Trainer and Manager of the Year Award is named in his honor.

Bellamy and his wife, Sharon, have two children - son Chase, and daughter Ashley.