Micaiah Platto, A.T.C., enters her first season as the athletic trainer of the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
Prior to Rutgers, Platto spent four seasons with the St. John’s Department of Athletics as an associate athletic trainer. During her time with the Red Storm, she was responsible for evaluating and assessing injuries, as well as designing rehabilitation programs for the women’s basketball, women’s tennis, women’s golf and dance teams.
A 2005 graduate of San Diego State University with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, she completed her master’s degree in exercise physiology from Syracuse University in 2007.
While attending Syracuse, Platto worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer in the sports medicine department and oversaw the women’s field hockey team, women’s tennis squad, and men’s and women’s track and field teams. She also assisted with basketball and lacrosse.
Platto spent her first two years as an undergraduate working for the University of San Diego and San Diego Mesa College as a student athletic trainer. Platto also interned with the United States Marine Corps as an assistant to the head athletic trainer at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, Calif.
Platto currently resides in Edison, N.J.
