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Patricia Cardenas Receives FWATA PR Excellence in Athletic Training Award

The FWATA Public Relations Committee is pleased to announce the fall quarter winner of the Excellence in Athletic Training Award. Each quarter, the Excellence in Athletic Training Award celebrates District 8 athletic trainers or athletic training student members who display an exceptional commitment to mentoring, professional development or enhancing the quality of health care. This quarter’s winner is Patricia Cardenas MS, ATC of Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA. “I am…

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Nevada ATA Hosts Fundraiser Bags Tournament

On November 14th the Nevada Athletic Trainers Association marked the inaugural Bags Tournament, (AKA Corn hole/long toss) NEV-ATA scholarship fundraiser at La Piazza, Las Vegas. This is Nev-ATA’s first year involved in this fun filled and competitive corn hole tournament. Nev-ATA will be selling Nev-ATA logo name tags so we can be properly identified when working events around the state. A second Tournament will be held during NATM. We plan…

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Meet District 8 – Carolyn Peters

The FWATA Public Relations Committee Social Media team is highlighting members of District 8 each month.  This month we are highlight District 8 Director; Carolyn Peters. District 8 Monthly Member Highlight: Carolyn Peters MA, ATC, CSCS Current Position: Head Athletic Trainer, San Diego Christian College Current FWATA Title: Director What first made you choose athletic training? What inspired you to become an athletic trainer? I had plans to be an English Teacher but shifted interest when I took more advanced science classes. I had been to a physical therapist when I was younger and thought that would be my career path until attending San Diego State University. There I was introduced to athletic training and soon joined the internship where I was fortunate to have mentors as Bob Moore, Dave Reeder, Sue Lalicker, and Linda Buttles. I enjoy the diversity of the AT’s day and the population of active people who want to excel physically. How did you first get…

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Wisdom of Lew Crowl

NATA & FWATA Hall of Famer, Lew Crowl, is the first to be interviewed as part of FWATA’s Oral History project. Lew has been a member of the NATA for 60 years and is one of the pioneers of our profession.  Hear his story of how he had the foresight to offer care to all student athletes and provided athletic trainers the opportunity to work in his physical therapy clinic. The…

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Rival ATs surprise engagement

Chaz Kekipi, athletic trainer at Servite High School, stunned his now fiancé and fellow AT, Karen Zieger, with the surprise of a lifetime after their schools’ rival football game. Zieger, of Orange Lutheran High School, was previously informed that the respective teams would honor the athletic training staff with an appreciation ceremony. Kekipi set up the fake event to hide the proposal he had been planning all along. “She had…

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UNLV Rebel Athletic Training Society at Work

On October 25th, Members of the UNLV Rebel Athletic Training Society (RATS) members were on site during the Las Vegas Cancer Awareness walk to ensure the route was clean and safe for the walkers and acted as first aid responders in case of an emergency. The walk had 15,000+ attendees and raised over $700,000 for the cause. RATS members also hosted Boo BASH at UNLV. A UNLV tradition housed in…

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Gatorade Secondary School Athletic Trainer Award: Now Accepting Nominations

SSATC and Gatorade are excited to announce The Gatorade Secondary School Athletic Trainer Award. This award recognizes a certified athletic trainer from each NATA district who has made outstanding contributions in furthering their high school’s athletic care program or the overall profession of secondary school athletic training. Each winner will receive a $1,000 grant toward the program featured in their submission; a Gatorade G Series Performance package – which includes…

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2015 CIF Champions for Character Award Recipients

On September 28th AT’s Holli Jackson (Edison High School in Huntington Beach, CA) and John Hansen (Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, CA) have been selected by the CIF Southern Section as the 2015 Jim Staunton Champions for Character award recipients. The CIF-SS selects their winners due to their “fierce competitive nature” and for “trustworthy, responsibility, respect, fairness, caring and citizenship.” “This award was completely unexpected but I was…

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San Diego High School Athletic Trainer Association

The San Diego High School Athletic Trainers Association held their 8th Annual Spine Boarding and Equipment Removal review at St Augustine High School, followed by CPR renewal. 
Special guests included the local SDFD Station 14, along with Paramedic Field Training Coordinator and Clinical Educator for City of San Diego EMS – Rural/Metro of San Diego and San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. The focus was, of course, the recently updated NATA Consensus…

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District 8 Adds American Samoa

In March of this year the FWATA PR Committee was introduced to the first athletic trainer in American Samoa. America Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Manoa Florence Salesa is a native of American Samoa and is leading the charge of introducing athletic training to her community. Naturally District 8 was…

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