Former Florida Southern College baseball student-athlete
Bobby Slater, class of 1994, became a Super Bowl champion on February 7 as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9, in Super Bowl LV.
Slater, a 1994 graduate of Florida Southern, currently serves as the head athletic trainer for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 2020 season marked his seventh with the Bucs organization. Prior to Tampa Bay, he spent 14 years on the Chicago Bears staff.
While at Florida Southern, Slater played two seasons and was a senior on the Moccasins 1994 NCAA National Runner-Up team. Playing in 72 career games, he batted .332 with 61 runs scored and 22 stolen bases. His consistent performances saw him score 31 runs as a junior and 30 as a senior; post a .505 slugging percentage in 1993 and a .500 mark in 1994; recorded a .457 on-base percentage his first season (led team) and a .450 stat as a senior; and swiped 10 bases as a junior and 12 as a senior.
Slater becomes the second former Moccasin baseball student-athlete to win a championship in the past five months. In October, Dino Ebel helped coach the Los Angeles Dodgers to the team's first World Series title since 1988.
