Adam Pallone joined the Rutgers Athletics staff in September 2022 and serves as the Senior Athletic Trainer for the Scarlet Knights baseball team.
He comes to Piscataway after a 14-year run with Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, where he also served as the athletic trainer with the QU baseball team.
Pallone's first professional experience came in 2004 with the New Haven County Cutters baseball club after earning his bachelor's degree in athletic training from Central Connecticut State University. In New Haven, Pallone was responsible for the daily treatment and rehabilitation of injuries for the independent Northeast League organization's 22 active-roster players.
He then completed an internship at Trinity College in Connecticut, where his primary sport responsibilities included men's soccer, wrestling, baseball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's squash, men's and women's swimming and diving, women's ice hockey and women's lacrosse.
Pallone went on to serve two years at Syracuse University as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer, gaining experience with the Orange football, men's and women's swimming and diving and men's lacrosse programs, while earning his master's degree in exercise science in 2007.
In 2007-08, Pallone returned to Trinity to serve as Assistant Athletic Trainer. In addition to working with the 2008 Division III National Champion Trinity baseball team, his primary sport responsibilities included men's and women's soccer, wrestling, men's ice hockey, men's and women's swimming and diving and men's and women's track and field.
From 2008 until 2022, Pallone was the Associate Athletic Trainer at Quinnipiac University where he primarily worked with the baseball and men’s lacrosse programs. While at Quinnipiac, Adam also served as a lecturer and instructor for the athletic training education program and assisted in and published research using high speed cameras, motion capture systems, and other orthopedic screening and data collection techniques to examine injury prevention strategies as they related to baseball athletes.
Pallone has been NATA-BOC certified since 2004 and is licensed by the State of New Jersey. He holds certifications as an American Heart Association BLS instructor, National Academy of Sports Medicine Corrective Exercise Specialist, Master Dry Needling Level 1, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization, OnBaseU Level 1 Pitching and Hitting, and Rapsodo Baseball Pitching certifications. He's also a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association, Eastern Athletic Trainers' Association and the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey.
Adam currently resides in Flemington with his wife, Lauren, and their daughter Kendall.
