Alexa Blatt - Associate Athletic Trainer <br><em>M. Basketball, W. Golf</em> - Staff Directory

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Alexa Blatt

Title:
Associate Athletic Trainer
M. Basketball, W. Golf
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Alexa Blatt has entered her first season as the UCLA men’s basketball team’s athletic trainer in 2025-26. This marks her seventh year working in UCLA’s athletic training office.

In her current role, Blatt handles all day-to-day athletic training responsibilities with UCLA men’s basketball and oversees multiple sports medicine interns. She also works with the UCLA women’s golf program. In addition to women’s golf, Blatt spent her first six seasons in UCLA’s athletic department working with the women’s basketball team and Bruins’ track and field programs.

Blatt’s work over the past six seasons with the UCLA women’s basketball program proved vital to the Bruins’ continued success. Most notably, the women’s basketball program advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 2024-25 and concluded the season with a 34-3 record. During her six-year stretch with the women’s basketball team, the Bruins advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2021 (second round), 2023 (Sweet 16), 2024 (Sweet 16) and 2025 (Final Four).

Blatt, who hails from Westlake Village, Calif., previously worked as an athletic trainer at Jacksonville University and Illinois State. She spent two seasons working with the women’s basketball program at Jacksonville University. As a graduate assistant at Illinois State, Blatt worked with the men’s and women’s track and field programs. She earned her master’s degree in kinesiology with a focus on athletic training. During her time in at Illinois State, she worked with the women’s indoor track and field program that won the 2016 Missouri Valley Conference title.

Among Blatt’s athletic training experience and specializations include Graston Technique (a form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization), manual therapy, myofascial cupping technique and the functional movement screen. She earned her undergraduate degree in athletic training from Nova Southeastern University in 2015.