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Steven Rubio is UT's Director of Player Personnel.
Rubio, 26, came to the Vols just before the 2009 season as a recruiting intern. Since his promotion, he now oversees all recruiting board material. Rubio handles the initial evaluation of high school and junior college prospects.
The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native came to UT from his alma mater, the University of Central Florida, where he graduated with a sports administration degree in 2007. Rubio worked in various roles on the Knights football staff for six years, spending the last 12 months as UCF's director of player personnel. Before that, he spent five months as the team's defensive graduate assistant.
After graduating with a sports administration degree in 2007, Rubio was named the recruiting and operations graduate assistant. Other assignments during his undergraduate days included three years as student manager and one as student intern under the offensive coordinator. Rubio's initial taste of the coaching world came as a volunteer assistant at his high school, St. Thomas Aquinas, from the summer of 2002 to the summer of 2003.
