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Sam Lunt is in his 24th year as a member of the Florida State University athletic staff and is beginning his 20th as the head athletic trainer for the men's basketball team. He is the associate director of the sports medicine and teaches several courses in the athletic training curriculum. Lunt handles all of the medical needs for the men's basketball, is in charge of creating/updating the emergency action plans, and oversees all inventory and purchasing for the Sports Medicine department. Lunt came to Florida State in 1983 after receiving his bachelor's degree in athletic training from the University of Miami. While at Miami, he worked as a student trainer in the Hurricane athletic department and served as a student assistant trainer with the Miami Dolphins of the NFL during the summer of 1982. As a graduate assistant at Florida State, Lunt worked with the Seminole football team while earning his master's degree in sports psychology. During the 1985 spring football season, he worked for the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL. He returned to Florida State in 1986 as a fulltime staff member to be the assistant football athletic trainer. Lunt began working with the men's basketball team in 1988 and is the longest tenured member of the Florida State basketball staff. The Seminoles have appeared in five NCAA Tournaments, the 2004 and 2006, 2007 NIT tournaments and won the 1991 Metro Conference tournament with Lunt on the sidelines. Lunt was a member of the training staff at the 1989 World University Games in Duisburg, Germany, the 1987 U.S. Olympic Festival and 1991 AAU Junior Olympics that were held in Tallahassee. Lunt was named the Professional Outreach Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Athletic Trainers' Association of Florida in 2004. He is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, as well as a certified professional rescuer through the American Red Cross. Lunt, is married to the former Agnes Bundick. The couple has three children: Ryan, and twins, Sean and Erin. |
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