Students

In May, University of Pittsburgh athletic training student Whitney Rowley spent two weeks in Peru, where she worked with special needs children in the psychomotor room of the Clinica San Juan de Dios and volunteered with Peru for Life, a nonprofit...

By Jeremy Hawkins, PhD, ATC, ATP Director, Colorado Mesa University

By Jeremy Hawkins, PhD, ATC, ATP Director, Colorado Mesa University

Over the past two and a half years the AT Strategic Alliance (BOC, CAATE, NATA and NATA Foundation), under the lead of NATA and CAATE, have been actively engaged in a critical examination of what the appropriate professional degree level should be...

When we were interviewing our newest Hall of Fame inductees for the May NATA News, we asked them to share advice for young ATs who are just getting started in this profession. Why not learn from the best of the best, right? Read on to see what these...

By Jeremy Hawkins, PhD, ATC, ATP Director, Colorado Mesa University In my last blog pos t I encouraged you as athletic training students to pay attention to the little things that help you become an athletic trainer. Ideas included to be present,...

We're starting a new series where we spotlight an athletic trainer or AT student each month. Our first AT spotlight is Chelsea Davis, a senior AT student (who just passed her certification exam!) at Montclair State University.

By Thad Walker, MS, ATC Millikin University

By Jeremy Hawkins, PhD, ATC In 1871, Philip P. Bliss, an American composer and conductor, published the following: Brightly beams our Father’s mercy, From His lighthouse evermore, But to us He gives the keeping Of the lights along the shore. Refrain...

By Jeremy Hawkins, PhD, ATC I have three boys who love to play baseball. As a parent who tries to be involved as much as possible in their individual pursuits, I am at times asked to do things tha are out of my comfort zone; umpiring a baseball game...