All the attending FWATA Hall of Fame members gather during the Annual Meeting to reminisce about the past and catch up with each other’s lives! It was a great honor to have NATA President Thorton and Rachel Oats, NATA Associate Executive Director at this special breakfast. (L-R) Bill Chambers, Lew Crowl, Fran Babich, Robert Kersey, Carolyn Greer, Julie Max, Tony Marek, Tom Abdenour, Rachel Oats, Jim Thorton and Scott Sailor
Free Communications Research Presentation Award 1st Place: Sara Nottingham, EdD, ATC (Reasons for and Mechanics of Documenting Patient Care Among Athletic Trainers: A Report from the Athletic Training Practice-Based Research Network) 2nd Place: Monica Caro (Bilateral Comparison of Lower Extremity Joint Energetics during Drop-Jumping) 3rd Place Runners Up (tie): Tricia Kasamatsu, PhD, ATC (Predicting the Likelihood of an Existing Concussion Management Policy in Secondary Schools: An Athletic Trainers’ Perspective), Tim…
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…
To celebrate National Athletic Training Month, the Rebel Athletic Training Society came up with a unique way to not only promote our profession in March, but also raise funds for our organization. We created wristbands with the theme “We Prepare, You Perform” to demonstrate how we’re raising awareness about athletic training. These cool wristbands were a symbol to our student athletes that our job as athletic trainers is for their…
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…
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