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Sam Rosengarten

Director of High Performance

Experience: 9 years

Biography

SAM ROSENGARTEN is in his ninth NFL season – all with the Ravens. As the team's director of high performance, Rosengarten oversees player monitoring systems, training load management, recovery protocols and performance analytics. Rosengarten has integrated real-time biometric monitoring during practice, advanced player monitoring protocols and injury prevention strategies tailored to the demands of the NFL. His expertise has shaped new data applications within the organization, driving innovation in injury forecasting and personalized athlete development to enhance player availability, optimize performance and help drive team success. He works closely with the strength & conditioning, medical and sports nutrition staffs to help accomplish these goals.

In 2020, Rosengarten was invited to present his concepts on athlete management and injury prevention to the NFL Physician Society at the annual NFL Scouting Combine. Prior to his Baltimore arrival, Rosengarten led the NHL's Buffalo Sabres' injury-prevention program for two seasons. He is a board-certified physical therapist, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and sports physiotherapist in Australia and the United Kingdom. He has also consulted for the NBA's New York Knicks and Oklahoma City Thunder and England's Lawn Tennis Association, among others.

Rosengarten has spent over 17 years working with athletes in professional sports team environments around the world. He has built a reputation for utilizing cutting edge technology to optimize athletic performance and lowering injury risk. He has published research in some of the world's leading sports medicine and sports science journals, such as the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, and has also presented at multiple major international conferences, including the International Olympic Committee's world conference on the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport.

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Sam Rosengarten co-founded two leading sports medicine clinics – Sportsmed Biologic and Recover Sports Medicine – where he led multidisciplinary teams across clinical, surgical, and allied health domains serving professional and elite amateur athletes.

Between late-2005 and mid-2015, Rosengarten co-founded four Sports Medicine clinics in Melbourne, Australia, employing over 50 surgical, medical and allied health staff. He is a director in a sports medicine clinic, Sportsmed Biologic, which focuses on emerging technologies in the medical biological space.

2015-16: (NHL Buffalo Sabres) As the Sabres' head of injury prevention/physical therapist, oversaw all day-to-day care of the players…Designed, developed and managed the team and feeder team's injury prevention program.

2011-14: (Australian Football League) Was a team rules physiotherapist for Australia in the International Rules Football Series, a hybrid of AFL and Gaelic football...Handled sideline care, built individualized rehab plans and injury prevention, while coordinating with AFL club medical teams to ensure seamless athlete care...During this time, Rosengarten worked on advancing holistic player management for the athletes to successfully travel and compete on an international stage.

2008-13: (Carlton Football Club) Spent six years as a sports physiotherapist with the AFL team, transforming its approach to injury prevention, implementing systems and structures that influenced Carlton's high-performance strategies...His multidisciplinary and tech-forward philosophy became a model for other AFL clubs.

2007: (Western Bulldogs) Supported the Australian rules football team based in Melbourne, strengthening injury prevention and rehab practices during a key transitional period.

COLLEGE: Earned a bachelor of physiotherapy and a master's of physiotherapy from The University of Melbourne…He is board certified in Maryland and New York, a titled sports physiotherapist (Australian Physiotherapy Association) and an International Sports Physical Therapist…Rosengarten is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist and certified performance and sports scientist and is registered with the United Kingdom's Health & Care Professions Council.

PERSONAL: Rosengarten played cricket both in Australia and England…He is a passionate educator, innovator and mentor in athletic performance, regularly sharing his expertise at conferences and academic symposia around the world…Rosengarten has presented on injury prevention, tendon pathology and data driven athlete monitoring to events such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference, the NFL & NCAA Catapult Football Conferences and the NFL Team Physicians Society Academic Symposium…Sam, his wife, Nina, who is an actor in both film and television, moved to the United States in 2015 along with their daughter, Mia, who is a sophomore varsity softball pitcher.

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