The Young Professionals Committee organized two field trips during the FWATA Annual meeting in Las Vegas. The first was a trip to meet the athletic training staff of the “Love” Cirque Du Soleil show and get behind the scenes tour of their facility. The second event was to Xtreme Couture MMA, which is a gym that MMA fighter Randy Couture operates. Attendees also got a tour of the facility and…
2014 FWATA Annual Meeting Award Winners Student Scholarships Gail Weldon Memorial Marissa Sumida- Chapman University Gary Millay Memorial Alissa Huerta – CSU, Long Beach Jerry Lloyd Memorial Michael Gregory – Cal State Fullerton Felix Rivera Memorial Soichiro Shiota – U.of Nevada, Las Vegas FWATA Hall of Fame Blaire Buckley – Chapman University Daniel D. Arnheim Danielle Stensvold – Sonoma State Mine and Gonsakulto Christiana Kaleialii – CSU, Fresno…
From April 10-12, 2014, several executive members of Stanford University’s athletic training staff (Scott Anderson, Eitan Gelber, Lindsey Dame, and Tomoo Yamada) attended The International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport in Monaco. The international conference featured world-renowned experts in a number of different sports medicine fields, including concussion management, running injuries, the overhead athlete, and injury surveillance and tracking using different technologies. The…
St. Francis High School’s Sports Medicine Program hosted the 13th Annual Sports Medicine Competition on Saturday, April 5, 2014. Since 2002, this competition has brought together students from across the western United States to test their knowledge in the specialized field of Sports Medicine/Athletic Training. This annual day of competition has created some wonderful friendships over the years between students and long-lasting partnerships between Sports Medicine programs. Ultimately, the goal…
West Hills Community College Coalinga Athletic Trainer Tracey Jaurena MA, ATC was named Athletic Trainer of the Year by the California Community College Athletic Trainers’ Association and will be honored during a luncheon April 3. Jaurena was nominated after responding to a medical incident during a WHCC basketball practice earlier this season. According to the incident report, the student stopped breathing during practice and was in a state of seizure.…
Santa Rosa Junior College’s (SRJC) Concussion Management Program has been named the 2014 Grand Silver winner of the NASPA Excellence Awards. Dr. Nancy Chinn and Monica Ohkubo, the collaborative leaders of the program, will be honored in March at the 2014 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Each year, NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, recognizes the outstanding contributions of members who are…
One of the FWATA Student Committee’s goals is to promote the Athletic Training profession and reach out to Athletic Training Students in District 8. This year the Outreach sub-committee created a PowerPoint presentation that details what an Athletic Trainer is and the educational requirements of becoming one. The intention of this presentation was to create further awareness of the profession during National Athletic Training Month, as well as give entry-level…
On March 30, 2014 Athletic Trainers from Nevada led by Nevada Athletic Trainers’ Association President Todd Hamburg volunteered their time and donated numerous cases of water to the Las Vegas Rescue Mission, which the organization distributes to homeless persons during the summer months. Courtesy of Coby Vandenberg, Nevada Athletic Trainers’ Association
Saturday March 29, 2014, 4 athletic trainers and an athletic training student volunteered at a local food bank in South Orange County, Second Harvest Food Bank. We spent 4 hours sorting food and packaging food to be sent to those in need. Many of the food items were donated by organization and local companies and grocery stores. It was a great experience working and continuing our service off the field.…
Florence Salesa, MS, ATC Age: 28 Alma Mater: University of Hawaii, Manoa – Undergraduate and Graduate School Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got started in Athletic Training? I was born and raised in American Samoa and as I was growing up had the opportunity to represent our country through athletics. I was involved in soccer, tennis and a member of the paddling/canoeing team. Through…
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