Congratulations to the 2015 FWATA Quiz Bowl Champions! Hope Allen, Nysa Allen and Anastacia Fraijo from the University of La Verne. Please come and cheer them on as they represent District 8 in St. Louis at the NATA Clinical Symposium and AT Expo on Thursday June 25th from 5-7pm (please check the program for room details). photo L to R: Kavin Tsang (NATA Foundation D8 Chair), Hope Allen, Nysa Allen, Anastacia Fraijo, Rachael…
Hello Colleagues, AB 161, the Athletic Trainers Title Protection Bill will be heard in the California State Assembly Business and Professions Committee on April 14. We need your emails of support by April 7. Please take a couple of moments to send an email of support to your legislators and ask them to support this bill today. Support AB 161 Please forward the link to your family, friends, athletes/patients, coaches/administrators,…
Big West Conference athletic trainers collaborated to celebrate National Athletic Training Month by giving back to the community. Spearheaded by UC Riverside, CSUN and UCSB also joined in on the effort. The goal for the month was to encourage staff and student athletes to collect toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, soap, etc.) from hotel travels. The ATs made hygiene kits out of the collected goods and donated them to local rape crisis…
In Riverside, California, the Athletic Training Student Organization (ATSO) at California Baptist University has been quite busy accomplishing club-wide goals the past few months. They held an Applebee’s Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser that was a huge success and brought in over $700 to meet the club’s goal to financially assisting members in paying for FWATA’s Annual Meeting in San Diego this year. ATSO members served breakfast, sold raffle tickets and connected…
On Sunday, March 8, 2015, Mount San Antonio College was represented at the 2015 Bailey-Arnheim Games (BAGs) at California State University Long Beach. This one-day event was an opportunity for athletic training students to represent their respective schools/programs and apply their knowledge and skills while competing in eight events related to the field of athletic training. The events are geared toward preparing the students for the BOC Certification Exam and…
The Athletic Training Clinic at Cal State Fullerton is her home. “Hey, how are you?” “What’s up, how was your weekend?” “Everybody OK? Have a great day.” Julie Max’s energy fills the place, and she doesn’t let a student-athlete pass by without a few words or a hug. “She is the mama of this ship,” assistant athletic trainer Jaime Potter said. Known as “Mama Max,” she serves as more than…
San Diego city’s Mayor, Kevin Faulconer, proclaimed March 2015 to be National Athletic Training Month. He notes that athletic trainers help to advance their profession through research and education as well as the need to raise public awareness of who athletic trainers. Jamie Adams reached out to Faulconer’s staff to help secure the proclamation in early March as a way to help spread the word of National Athletic Training Month…
The FWATA PR Committee hosted a booth at the 3rd Annual Centanni-Cottle Memorial 5K on Sunday March 22nd in Yorba Linda, CA. There were over 500 participants representing the community, the military and local law enforcement in honor of the fallen United States Marines, Lance Corporal Rick Centanni and Sergeant Major Robert “RJ”Cottle. Athletic trainers and athletic training students from both the collegiate and secondary schools spent the morning handing…
In honor of National Athletic Training Month, California Baptist University’s Athletic Training Student Organization (ATSO) set out to their clinical rotation sites and the community to bring awareness to the program and profession. The club has been running a canned food drive to benefit a food bank in the Riverside community that distributes the cans to local shelters. Boxes were decorated and placed at all of CBU’s clinical sites to…
Athletic training students from California Baptist University were invited to a council meeting in the City of Riverside to promote March as National Athletic Training Month. Zach Norton-Martinez spoke in front of the council and educated the public on NATM and the importance of athletic training in the community. Courtesy of Cal Baptist University ATSO
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