Armando Rivas
Armando Rivas
Head Athletic Trainer
Hired in February 2008, Armando Rivas enters his first season as the Galaxy’s Head Athletic Trainer. A native of Yucaipa, Calif., Rivas joined the Galaxy after spending the last seven years in with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim organization.
The 31-year old Rivas began his career in athletic training in 1999 as a student trainer with the Cal State-Fullerton men’s soccer team in 1999. One year later Rivas spent a season with the Angels, serving as a training intern during the 2000 Major League Baseball season.
Following his internship with the Angels, Rivas was hired by UCLA where he spent one year, working with the men’s soccer team in Fall 2000 and the baseball team in Spring 2001, before re-joining the Angels organization in 2001.
Over the last seven years Rivas worked with various teams in the Angles minor league system, including the Arkansas Travellers, Cedar Rapids Kernals and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. During the 2006 and 2007 seasons, Rivas was the trainer for the Angels AAA affiliate, the Salt Lake Bees.
In addition to his work with the Angels organization, Rivas spent the last six off-seasons working at a physical therapy clinic in Orange, Calif. which specializes in professional athletes.
Rivas, who currently resides in Diamond Bar, Calif. along with his wife Elizabeth, graduated from Cal State-Fullerton in 2000 with a degree in Kinesiology with and emphasis on athletic training. In 2004, Rivas earned a Master’s Degree in Kinesiology with and emphasis on exercise physiology from Cal Poly Pomona.
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