Joshua Chatman joined the Florida State University Sports Medicine Staff as an Assistant Athletic Trainer working with the Seminole Football program and the Director of mTBI management for all Athletics in the summer of 2017.

Prior to coming to Tallahassee, Chatman served as an assistant athletic trainer for the University of Texas Football team from 2014 until 2017, the University of Louisville football team from 2010 until 2014 and as a staff-assistant athletic trainer with the Miami Dolphins (2009-10).

A native of Chicago, Ill., Chatman graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree of Science in Kinesiology with a concentration in Athletic Training in the spring of 2007. While at the University of Illinois, Chatman served as an athletic training student for several varsity sports including men’s basketball, men’s tennis, track and field and football. He went on to graduate from the University of Florida with a Master of Science in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology with a concentration in Sports Medicine in 2009. While at the University of Florida, Chatman served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the Florida Gator football team and men’s golf program from 2007-09.

Chatman is currently a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA). He was a two-time IHSA state champion in track and field. He enjoys bowling, running, working out and going to the movies. He resides in Tallahassee.

April 2025

Harry Mitchell, a senior sprinter with the St. Francis Borgia High School track and field team, has been setting records and winning races all season. He had a quadruple victory at the All-Catholic Track & Field Meet at Chaminade College Preparatory School, with wins in the boys’ 100, 200 and 400 meter races and the 4×100 meter relay, setting new school records in the 400 and 4×100 relay and leading the state in Class 3 times for the 200 and 400. He set a new school record in the 100 at the St. Dominic Invitational with a time of 10.79 seconds. He is ranked in Missouri Class 3 in multiple events including third in the long jump, fourth in the 4×100 relay, second in the 4×200 relay and third in the 4×400 relay.

For his accomplishments, he won “Athlete of the Week” via MoMileSplit, the official website of Missouri Track & Field partnering with Missouri State High School Sports Association.

Lexi Cook, a junior at Parkway South High School, serves as captain of the swim team. She had a phenomenal season in the pool, going undefeated in all races, including at the Missouri state meet. She set multiple records throughout the season, including the girls’ 200 and 500 meter freestyle, and broke her own school record in the 100 meter backstroke, bringing her total school record count to five. She set state records in both the 200 and 500 freestyle and achieved the All-American Automatic standard in the 500 freestyle by one second.

Cook is a five-time St. Louis Suburban Public High School Athletic and Activities Association (SPHSAAA) Conference Champion and five-time SPHSAAA All-Conference selection whose hard work in the classroom has earned a 4.43 GPA. She volunteers as a summer league coach for the Ballwin Blue Dolphins and works part time.

Phil Montano, AT, ATC, MS, was named the head baseball athletic trainer at Florida State in the summer of 2023 after spending two seasons as an assistant athletic trainer at Notre Dame. Montano was a part of current FSU head coach Link Jarrett’s staff that helped lead the Fighting Irish to the 2022 College World Series, the third appearance in program history. Montano spent the 2023 summer working with USA Baseball U16-U-17 Development Team in Cary, N.C.

Prior to his time at Notre Dame, Montano was the head athletic trainer for the Joliet Slammers baseball team of the Frontier League, where he worked alongside Dr. Tony Romeo, a former orthopedic surgeon for the Chicago White Sox who has contributed greatly to baseball sports medicine research.

Montano also spent six years at the University of Cincinnati working with the baseball, football and basketball programs. In 2019, Cincinnati baseball won the AAC Championship and played in the Corvallis Regional, the program’s first postseason berth since 1974. At Cincinnati, he worked with current Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Joey Wiemer and Oakland A’s catcher Ryan Noda.

Montano graduated from Ohio University in 2014 and earned his Master’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science from PennWest California in 2016.

Jerry Latimer, one of the most respected people at Florida State, is in his 14th season as the Executive Associate Director of Sports Medicine and the Director of Rehabilitation. He joined the Seminole Sports Medicine Staff in 2011 and coordinates post-surgical and non-surgical rehabilitation of the Florida State student-athletes.

Latimer’s focus is on injury prevention and implementing screening programs for the student-athletes with all the respective athletic trainers along with their strength and conditioning coaches.

Latimer has utilized his talents to develop Kinetic Performance (KP3) an athletic injury prevention screening which has become widely used throughout the physical therapy world. He also implemented prevention programs which are currently used nationally in club sports, high schools, collegiate arenas and by professional athletes.

Latimer has been an adjunct professor at Florida State within the Athletic Training curriculum since 2003.

Latimer graduated from Florida State in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in physical rehabilitation after serving as a student athletic trainer from 1984-88. Following his graduation from Florida State, he attended Florida A&M and earned his bachelor’s degree in physical therapy in 1991. In 2017 he completed a PhD from Nova Southeastern University. Prior to returning to Florida State in 2012, he worked in acute hospital care and orthopedic outpatient settings and for 14 years at Lee Orthopedics in Ft. Myers Florida and the Tallahassee Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy as a clinical coordinator, director and senior physical therapist.

Latimer, and his wife Cheryl, have been married for 28 years and have five children: Jordan. 24, Charlie, 21, Peyton, 19, Silas, 15 and Blaise, 13.